Victor Laloux

Victor-Alexandre-Frederic Laloux (Turns, November 15th 1850 - Paris, 1937) is a French architect.

He is the pupil of Louis-Jules André with the École of the Art schools of Paris starting from 1869. Its studies are stopped by the Franco-German Guerre of 1870. It gains the first Grand Prix of Rome in 1878. The subject of the final test is entitled “a church cathedral”.

The young prize winner becomes boarder of the Académie from France to Rome, of January 1879 at December 31st 1882. Its sending of fourth year on Olympie was worth a medal with the to him Salon of 1885.

Right-hand man, then elected successor of Andre, to died of this last in 1890, it leads to its turn of many pupils to the Grand Prix. He is elected member of the Académie of the Art schools in 1909. As expert and professor, Laloux becomes one of the most outstanding representatives of the Académisme triumphing over the Belle Time. It takes part in many jurys official and chairs several companies of architects and artists (for example Société of the French artists). It preserves the direction of its workshop until in 1936, date on which it passes the torch to its pupil and friendly Charles Lemaresquier.

Achievements

Enthusiastic user of metal, it prudently chooses to dissimulate it behind stone frontages to traditional scheduling, following the example his contemporaries Henri Deglane, Albert Louvet and Albert-Felix-Theophilus Thomas for the Large palace. He realizes as follows:

town halls of Roubaix and Turns.
the basilica Saint Martin's day with Turns.
stations of Turns and of Orsay to Paris (current Museum of Orsay).
the central seat of the LCL, street from Four-September with Paris.
the embassy of the United States, which occurred Gabriel in Paris, in collaboration with the American architect William Delano.

Pupils

François-Benjamin Chaussemiche.
In nearly 50 years of teaching, the “Laloux Father” saw passing between its hands the drafts of more than 600 pupils, of which a hundred American . Source Marie-Laure Crosnier-Lecomte, Victor Laloux, the architect of the station of Orsay , files of the museum of Orsay, n° 9,1987, page 65.

External bond

Laloux

Random links: