Victor Baltard

Victor Baltard ( born June 10, 1805 in Paris, † January 13, 1874 ibid ) was in the second half of the 19th century city architect in Paris. Among his most famous buildings include the parish church of Saint -Augustin and the market halls in Paris.

Family

Victor Baltard was the son of the architect Louis -Pierre Baltard (1764-1846) was born, the first at the École polytechnique and later taught at the École des Beaux -Arts in Paris as a professor of architecture. 1833 married Victor Baltard Adeline, sister of the architect Paul -Eugène Lequeux.

Career

1824 Victor Baltard entered the École des Beaux -Arts. There he took courses with his father, at the architect François Debret and Charles Percier, he also attended courses in painting.

On completion of the training Victor Baltard in 1833 received the most prestigious award the College of Art, the Prix de Rome, which allowed him a five -year stay in Rome. Connected to the price the accommodation was at the Villa Medici, since 1803 the seat of the Académie de France in Rome, whose director Dominique Ingres was 1835. During this time Victor Baltard made ​​acquaintance with many French artists, the composer Ambroise Thomas, the painter Hippolyte Flandrin, the sculptor Pierre -Charles Simart, who also resided at the Villa Medici. In Rome, Victor Baltard primarily dealt with archaeological studies.

After his return was appointed Baltard in Paris 1839 Inspecteur des Beaux -Arts. In 1841 he took part in the competition for the design of the tomb of Napoleon at the Invalides, from an ex-aequo emerged he and the architect Louis Visconti first. Louis Visconti, who was older and was regarded as an experienced, was awarded the contract.

1845 Victor Baltard was entrusted with the construction of the outdated Halles. This year he presented his first draft, he by amending later in favor of a pure iron and glass construction. 1851 began with the construction work. The first six pavilions were completed in 1858, four more in 1874. The last two pavilions were only completed in 1935. In the 1970s, the market halls were demolished and the shopping mall Forum des Halles created in its place, which will be fundamentally redesigned since 2012. Only an old hall, called Pavillon Baltard, has survived and was rebuilt in Nogent -sur- Marne.

From 1848 Victor Baltard responsible for the restoration of the Town Hall (Hôtel de Ville ) and the Paris churches whose conversions he headed. From 1853 onwards Baltard was also responsible for organizing the celebrations of the city of Paris. He created the scenes for solemn receptions, initiation ceremonies and other festivities.

The late 1850s Victor Baltard designed based on the market halls, the plans for the new slaughterhouse building in La Villette, on the northeastern outskirts of Paris, whose execution he left the architect Louis -Adolphe Janvier. Georges- Eugène Haussmann, who had become prefect of the Seine in 1853, appointed Victor Baltard, which was like Haussman Protestant, in 1860, the chief architect of the city of Paris.

From 1860 to 1871 Victor Baltard built the parish church of St -Augustin on Place Saint -Augustin in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. At the beginning of the 1870s, Victor Baltard designed the plans for the funeral of the city of Paris ( Pompe funèbres ) in the Rue d' Aubervilliers No. 104 in the 19th arrondissement, in which the cultural CENTQUATRE is housed.

Awards

  • Appointment as an officer of the Legion of Honor

Structures ( selection)

Parish Church of Saint -Augustin

Former funeral home Pompes funèbres, now a cultural center CENTQUATRE

Former funeral home Pompes funèbres, now a cultural center CENTQUATRE

Grave monuments

Victor Baltard designed the grave monument Hippolyte Flandrin for in the church of Saint- Germain -des- Prés and the grave of the composer Louis Lefébure - Wély (1817-1869) at the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Unrealized projects

Publications (selection)

  • Monograph of the Halles centrales de Paris, Paris, 1863.
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