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Charles Henri-Camille Lemaresquier (October 16, 1870,
Sète
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- January 6, 1972,
Paris
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) was a French architect and teacher.
Lemaresquier was born in
Sète
Sète (; oc, Seta, ), also historically spelt ''Cette'' (official until 1928) and ''Sette'', is a commune in the Hérault department, in the region of Occitania, southern France. Its inhabitants are called ''Sétois'' (male) and ''Sétoises' ...
, in southern France, into a family of artists, and apprenticed to a Parisian architect at the age of 16. He was accepted into the
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris in 1888, and by 1890 was in the ''atelier'' of
Victor Laloux
Victor Alexandre Frederic Laloux (15 November 1850 – 13 July 1937) was a French Beaux-Arts architect and teacher.
Life
Born in Tours, Laloux studied at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts ''atelier'' of Louis-Jules André, with his studies i ...
, who had taken over from his mentor
Louis-Jules André
Louis-Jules André (24 June 1819 – 30 January 1890) was a French academic architect and the head of an important ''atelier'' at the École des Beaux-Arts.
Biography
Born in Paris, André attended the École des Beaux-Arts and took the Prix ...
after André's death.
In the summer and fall of 1927, Lemaresquier represented France on the jury of nine European architects judging the high-profile
Palace of Nations
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competition, assessing the 375 entries alongside fellow judges such as
Hendrik Petrus Berlage
Hendrik Petrus Berlage (21 February 1856 – 12 August 1934) was a Dutch architect. He is considered one of the fathers of the architecture of the Amsterdam School.
Life and work
Hendrik Petrus Berlage, son of Nicolaas Willem Berlage and An ...
,
Victor Horta
Victor Pierre Horta (; Victor, Baron Horta after 1932; 6 January 1861 – 8 September 1947) was a Belgian architect and designer, and one of the founders of the Art Nouveau movement. His Hôtel Tassel in Brussels, built in 1892–93, is often ...
, and
Josef Hoffman
Josef Hoffmann (15 December 1870 – 7 May 1956) was an Austrian- Moravian architect and designer. He was among the founders of Vienna Secession and co-establisher of the Wiener Werkstätte. His most famous architectural work is the Stoclet P ...
.
Among his students were
Max Ingrand
Maurice Max-Ingrand, better known as Max Ingrand (20 December 1908, Bressuire – 25 August 1969, Paris) was a French artist and decorator, known for his work in studio glass and his stained glass windows.
He was educated at the ''École natio ...
and
David Moreira da Silva. The architect held seat #6 of the Architecture section of the
Académie des Beaux-Arts
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from 1938 until his death in 1972.
In 1900 Lemaresquier married Germaine Ribaucourt (1874-1951), and their union produced four children. His son
Noël Le Maresquier (1903–1982) trained in his father's atelier, modified the family surname, and became an architect with a similar career with similar honors. Lemaresquier was also the father-in-law of French Prime Minister
Michel Debré
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, who married the architect's daughter Anne-Marie.
Work
Lemaresquier's work includes:
* headquarters for grocery retailer
Félix Potin
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, rue Réaumur, 1910
* apartment building, 2 rue Coustou, Paris, 1926
* National Circle of Armies, 8 Place Saint Augustin, on the former site of the Pépinière Barracks, Paris, with architectural sculpture by
François-Léon Sicard
François-Léon Sicard (April 21, 1862 – July 8, 1934) was a French sculptor in the late 19th and early 20th century. His credits include work on the adornments of the Louvre, and numerous sculptures around the world.
Sicard was born in Tours, ...
,
Paul Landowski
Paul Maximilien Landowski (1 June 1875 – 31 March 1961) was a French monument sculptor of Polish descent. His best-known work is '' Christ the Redeemer'' in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Biography
Landowski was born in Paris, France, of a Polish re ...
,
Jean Antoine Injalbert
Jean-Antoine Injalbert (1845–1933) was a much-decorated French sculptor, born in Béziers.
Life
The son of a stonemason, Injalbert was a pupil of Augustin-Alexandre Dumont and won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1874. At the Exposition Uni ...
and
Jean Boucher,
1927
* Juncasse veterinary school, 23 avenue Henri-Guillaumet,
Toulouse
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, 1931
*
Palais Berlitz
The Palais Berlitz, also known as Palais de Hanovre, is an office building built in Paris in the 1930s on a block formed by the Boulevard des Italiens, the , the and the rue du Hanovre.
It was built to replace the Pavillon de Hanovre, which w ...
, built as the Palais du Hanovre, 26-34 Rue Louis Legrand, Paris, 1932
* work at the
Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption, Paris, 1961
References
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1870 births
1972 deaths
19th-century French architects
20th-century French architects
People from Sète
Prix de Rome for architecture
Academic staff of the École des Beaux-Arts
École des Beaux-Arts alumni
Members of the Académie des beaux-arts
Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
French centenarians
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