Jean-Alexandre Werry

Jean-Alexandre Werry is a Belgian Architecte , former captain of the genious of the French troops of the Revolution, born with Brussels the May 12th 1773 and died in its birthplace the December 19th 1847 in its residence street of Laeken, section four, n° 131 (the n°31 currently disappeared). It was wire of Denis-Englebert Werry and Elisabeth Uyterspruyt.

He had married an young girl of the French nobility Adélaïde Boistel of Cardomois .

The name of Jean-Alexandre Werry should be better known and taken better into account in the history of the architecture of Belgium, because it was that which transmitted to the new generation of the 19th century all the experiment and all the architectural knowledge, practical and theoretical, of the Great century.

Raise Claude Fisco, it succeeded in 1792 Jean-François Wincqz as professor the Academy of Brussels. There remained professor until 1836 there.

In addition to its teaching, he became architect of the town of Brussels.

Of his work one still knows the hotels which surround the Théâtre of the Currency (1817-1819) and those which open the doors of Laeken and of Leuwen.

He is the author of an imposing project of duplication of the town of Brussels, which took again mainly the fallen through project of Maximilien-Emmanuel of Bavaria, but for lack of public means he could not again be put into practice, its ideas however, were not lost and it will be necessary to await the following generation to set in motion the enlarging of Brussels.

Its role of transmitter will be checked in the work of its disciples: Philippe Poelaert (1790-1875), second price of architecture in 1808, father of Joseph Poelaert (1817-1879), Henri Partoes, second price in 1811, Felix Janlet (1808-1866), Louis Spaak and Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar (1811-1880).

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