Charles-Gustave Stoskopf (1907–2004) was a French architect. He designed buildings in

Strasbourg Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label=Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label=Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the Eu ...

Colmar Colmar (, ; Alsatian: ' ; German during 1871–1918 and 1940–1945: ') is a city and commune in the Haut-Rhin department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France. The third-largest commune in Alsace (after Strasbourg and Mulhouse), it is ...

and Créteil. He won the second Prix de Rome in architecture in 1933.

Early life

Charles-Gustave Stoskopf was born in

on 2 September 1907. His father,

Gustave Stoskopf Gustave Stoskopf (8 July 1869 – 6 December 1944) was a French painter, playwright, poet, draughtsman and publisher from Alsace. He graduated from the Académie Julian and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He served as the direc ...

, was a polymath: poet, painter, playwright and publisher. Stoskopf studied architecture at the École régionale d'architecture de Strasbourg in

. He graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, where his professors included

Emmanuel Pontremoli Emmanuel Pontremoli (13 January 1865 – 25 July 1956) was a French architect and archaeologist. Biography Born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, a student in the ''atelier'' of Louis-Jules André, in 1890 he won the Prix de Rome in the architectur ...

and Jacques Debat-Ponsan.

Career

Stoskopf won the second Prix de Rome in architecture in 1933. In the aftermath of World War II, Stoskopf began designing new buildings demolished by the war in the villages of Alsace, especially near

, and in the Territoire de Belfort. He redesigned the Place de l'Homme-de-Fer in Strasbourg from 1952 to 1956. Meanwhile, from 1954 to 1970, he designed housing estates like Colmar's ZUP, Créteil's Mont-Mesly, or Strasbourg's Canardière, Esplanade and Quai des Belges. He also designed churches, like the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Créteil in 1976. Stoskopf authored a novel in 1998.

Death

Stoskopf died in Paris on 22 January 2004.

Works

References

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