Emmanuel Pontremoli

Emmanuel Pontremoli (January 13rd 1865 with Nice, the Alpes-Maritimes - 1956) is a Architecte French.

Wire of Rabbi, initially tried by the Painting, it follows the courses of the School of decorative arts of Nice, its birthplace, then between with the École from the Art schools in Paris in the workshop of Louis-Jules André. Large price of Rome in 1890, it carries out many archaeological statements and of ancient restitutions of monuments.

He visits the Greece, attends the French building site of Delphes and, in 1895, publishes a series of sights restored of Pergame, before taking part in 1896 in the excavations of the Temple of Apollo Philésios in Didymes. In 1898, it works with Maxime Collignon in Pergame; they will publish Pergame, restoration and description of the monuments of the Acropolis , whose boards will obtain the Grand Prix of architecture to the World Fair of Paris in 1900.

In 1899, it marries Suzanne Hecht. The couple has three children: Therese, Jean and Michel. Returned with Paris, Pontremoli is the assistant of Redon to the Musée of Louvre. It takes part in the installation of the gallery of the Rubens and prepares for the World Fair of Paris the plans of the Palate of the woman.

Between 1902 and 1908, it gives its most known work, the Villa Kérylos with Beaulieu-sur-Mer (the Alpes-Maritimes), re-creation of a villa of ancient Greece built for Theodore Reinach between 1902 and 1908.

In 1911, it builds the Synagog Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine), in Byzantine style.

In 1925 - 1927, in partnership with the London agency Mewès and Davis, it transforms for the oil tycoon Calouste Gulbenkian a private mansion built by Ernest Sanson in Paris, 51 Avenue of Iéna, for Rodolphe Kann.

In 1922, it is elected member of the Académie of the Art schools in 1922. It was one of the large professors of architecture of the School of the Art schools, of which it was named director in 1932.

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