Gaston Redon
Gaston Fernand Redon ( born October 28, 1853 in Bordeaux, † November 20, 1921 in Paris) was a French architect and since 1914 a member of the Académie des Beaux -Arts.
Life
Redon was born as the third son of a wealthy landowner Bertrand Redon and his wife Marie Guerin in Bordeaux. The family was artistically inclined: His brother Odilon Redon became an artist, the other brother Ernest was a musician. Redon attended the École nationale supérieure des beaux -arts de Paris, which he finished in 1883 with a diploma. In the same year he was awarded the Prix de Rome. Between 1884 and 1887 Redon therefore lived in the Villa Medici. Here he met Claude Debussy, with whom should connect a lifelong friendship.
After his return to Paris Redon was an architect of the government. First, he was responsible for the production of goblins, then later he was architect for public buildings in Paris. Redon was responsible for the expansion of Rubens, Van Dyck and hall - hall in the Louvre and the conversion and the establishment of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in the Pavillon de Marsan in the year 1905. 1914 he was elected to the Académie des Beaux -Arts.
He devoted himself intensively to the teaching at the École nationale supérieure des beaux -arts: Together with Alfred Henri Recoura he took over in 1891 the workshop Coquart -Gerhardt and there formed architect Roger -Henri Expert, Albert Laprade, Léon Azéma and Michel Roux- Spitz from.
The Musée d' Orsay preserved on many of his drawings with fantastic - surrealistscher architecture.