Grand Palais

The Grand Palais is one built for the Universal Exhibition in 1900 in Paris exhibition building. It turns to the opposite Petit Palais and the Pont Alexandre III adjacent an important architectural ensemble of the Belle Époque dar. After various uses, it now serves the state museums as a gallery for temporary exhibitions.

History

The Grand Palais was built 1897-1900 on the also newly Avenue Nicolas II (now the Avenue Winston Churchill), which connects the Avenue des Champs-Elysees to the Invalides. Before that stood on this site who built for the Universal Exhibition of 1855 Industrial Palace. For a limited architectural competition went on French 1896 Henri -Adolphe -Auguste Deglane ( 1855-1931 ), Louis -Albert Louvet ( 1860-1936 ), Albert -Félix- Théophile Thomas ( 1847-1907 ) and Charles -Louis Girault (1851 - 1932) emerged as the winner, the last-mentioned was the line. On May 1, 1900, the inauguration of President Émile Loubet by Grand Palais took place. The palace was during the World exhibition " la gloire de l'Art français " glorify ( the glory of French art ), as is stated in the gable inscription.

Architecture

From the outside the stone architecture of the Grand Palais echoes the shapes of the Neoclassical Baroque in terms of the Beaux -Arts school. Divided by Ionic columns and adorned with numerous representations of figures, the building extends to approximately 240 meters in length and is up to 44 meters high. In addition to the large main entrance on Avenue Winston Churchill are located at the four beveled ends of the wings, the actual inputs with large staircases and bronze quadriga as Dachbekrönung. The interior of the building with more than 5000 m² of exhibition space is a long-range engineering of iron and glass on cross-shaped floor plan.

Uses

In keeping with the original meaning also took place after the Great Exhibition of 1900 art exhibitions at the Grand Palais, including the Salon was founded by the Société des Artistes Independants des Independants. Moreover, it was from 1901 to 1961 Location of the automotive exhibition Mondial de l'Automobile. Other uses were book and antique fairs, agricultural equipment exhibitions, fashion shows, concerts and circus guest performances. Also riding tournaments took from 1901 to 1957 and again since 2010 under the name Saut Hermès instead. Under Minister of Culture André Malraux then (such as the FIAC ) in 1964 found the renovation of the North Wing in gallery spaces instead for major international art exhibitions. Among the most successful exhibitions include the Renoir retrospective in 1985 with 868 600 visitors and the Manet exhibition in 1983 with 808 700 visitors. After a rivet of the glass roof was thrown down during an antiques fair in June 1993, a twelve -year basic renovation of the building took place. Since 1 September 2005, the Grand Palais is part of the Réunion des Musées Nationaux ( National Museums ). Among other things, here's the science museum Palais de la Découverte. Highlights of the Grand Palais includes a housed in a building part of the police station. Since 2006 Chanel shows the biannual catwalk collections of the house and runs great effort with huge Kulissenbauten. Due to the size of the audience and Barrel assets of the Grand Palais, the Chanel look are the highlight of the Paris Fashion Week.

Gallery

Exterior view of the roof

Interior view of the roof structure

Group of figures above an input

At sunset on the Seine