Hector Lefuel
Hector Martin Lefuel, Martin -Hector Lefuel ( born November 14, 1810 in Versailles, † December 31, 1880 in Paris) was a French architect of historicism, whose buildings were mostly built in the style of Neo-Baroque.
Life and work
The son of the Versailles contractor Alexandre Henry Lefuel (1782-1850) was first formed from this, later by Jean -Nicolas Huyot and from 1829 at the École des Beaux -Arts in Paris. In 1833, he won the project of a military school a " Second Great Price " of the Prix de Rome. Then he returned to his father's death to support his family back to Versailles, took his schooling but later on. In 1839 he won with a project of a metropolitan city hall the "First Grand Prize " of the Prix de Rome. This was associated with a scholarship: from 1840-1844 inhabited Lefuel a scholarship from the Villa Medici in Rome.
After his return to Paris, he opened a studio, in which he recorded and students, and was appointed building inspector of the Chamber of Deputies. In 1848 he was appointed architect to the castle in Meudon. In 1852 he built the manufactory of Sèvres. 1853-1855 he was the chief architect of the castle Fontainebleau, where he among other things, the auditorium was built.
As a successor to the late Louis Tullius Visconti, he was in 1854 by Emperor Napoleon III. entrusted to the chief architect of the Paris city castles Louvre and the Palais des Tuileries, which he should join and complete. Some of the work was continued by Visconti's plans, however, took Lefuel also significant changes to the floor plans and facades. His work on and around the Louvre include the building of the Salle des États, the northern connecting building to the Place du Palais -Royal ( with Finance Ministry and library, opened in 1857 ), the Southern Association tract ( Galerie du Bord de l' Eau ) with the pavilion Lesdiguères and the pavilion Trémoille, the reconstruction of the Pavillon de Flore and several buildings at the Carrousel. For Empress Eugénie, he designed the interiors of their private rooms in the Palais des Tuileries. In the uprising of the Paris Commune in 1871, parts of the Louvre were damaged and then restored from Lefuel. The completely destroyed Palais des Tuileries was not rebuilt. Lefuels connecting tracts thus constitute today the two outer side arms of the Jardin des Tuileries open towards main courtyard.
To Lefuels works include the Parisian palaces of Finance Achille Fould ( the now demolished Hôtel Fould ) and the museum director Emilien de Nieuwerkerke (Hôtel de Nieuwekerke at Parc Monceau ) and the Hôtel Émonville in Abbeville. He also designed the tombs of the composer Daniel -François- Esprit Auber and François Bazin at the Père Lachaise Cemetery. For the Paris World Fair of 1855 he erected the makeshift Palais des Beaux -Arts et de l'Industrie ( Palace of Fine Arts and the industry).
His reputation as an imperial architect earned him a contract for the construction of the New Castle (1868-1876) and later the Upper Silesian Versailles palace complex called Neudeck.
Honors
1854 Lefuel was appointed Knight of the Legion of Honour ( 1857 officer 1867 " Commandeur " of the same ). In 1855 he became a member of the Académie des Beaux -Arts as a successor to Martin Gauthier.