Jean-Jacques Lequeu

Jean-Jacques Lequeu , born the September 14th 1757 with Rouen and dead the March 28th 1826 with Paris, is a Architecte and Dessinateur French.

Jean-Jacques Lequeu is rather a visionary that an architect. Separately two “madnesses” around its birthplace, it did not build anything. All the remainder of its architectural work consists in drawings of often inconstructibles buildings. The remainder of its pictorial work, such its self-portraits as a transvestite, belongs to the phantasm and constituted an inspiration for the Surréalisme which saw in him a precursor. Large-thing of his life is not known. It is known that he worked in his birthplace with the architect Brument.

He was architect of the royal Académie of Sciences, Belles-Lettres, and Art schools. He received two prices of the Royal Academy of Rouen in 1776 and 1778. In 1779, it works as draftsman or inspector at the office of the buildings of the church Holy-Genevieve (i.e. the agency of Jacques-Germain Soufflot). In 1793, it is employed at the office of the Land register. In 1802, it works at the office of the civil buildings of the ministry for the Interior. In July 1825, it gives the whole of its drawings and manuscripts to the Royal Bibliothèque.

He is often regarded as a “revolutionary” architect, as well as Etienne-Louis Boullée and Claude Nicolas Ledoux. This epithet does not come from what they revolutionized the architecture or which it were particularly committed at this period, but which they are contemporary French revolution.

Sources

  • Philippe Duboy, Jean-Jacques Lequeu: a enigma , Paris, Hazan, 1987.
  • Philippe Duboy, “the Phantasmagoria of the architect”, in catalog of the exposure architects of freedom 1789-1799 , ENSBA, Paris (October 4th, 1989 - January 7th, 1990), ISBN 2-903639-65-5
  • Emil Kaufmann, Three revolutionary architects, Swell, Ledoux, Lequeu , Paris, 1978.
  • Jacques Guillerme, “Lequeu and the invention of the bad taste” in Gazette of the Art schools , Paris, September 1965, p. 153-166.
  • A. Jacques and J. - P. Mouilleseaux, Architects of Freedom , Paris, 1988.
  • the Revolution in High-Normandy 1798-1802 , editions of Norman P' tit, 1989.

External bonds

  • Page Jean-Jacques Lequeu of the National library of France
  • the funds Jean-Jacques Lequeu of the National library of France

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