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Louis Jean Desprez (occasionally but incorrectly Jean Louis Desprez) (May 1743–18 March 1804) was a French painter and architect who worked in Sweden during the last twenty years of his life.[1] [2] [3]

Biography

Desprez, who was born in Auxerre in Bourgogne, France. He studied architecture and was awarded the Great Prize of the Académie royale d'architecture in 1770. He traveled frequently to Italy and was associated with Piranesi in Rome. He came to the attention of King Gustav III of Sweden, who offered him a two-year contract as director of scenic decorations at the new Stockholm Opera founded by the King two years earlier. His first task there was the decorations for the new opera Gustaf Wasa (with a libretto authored by the King in collaboration with Johan Henric Kellgren and music by Johann Gottlieb Naumann).[4] [5] [2]

As an architect, Desprez designed in a monumental, neoclassical style influenced by his study of Greek and Roman ruins in the south of Italy and in Sicily. A good example of this is Hämeenlinna Church in Finland - Finland at that time still being part of the Swedish kingdom - completed in 1799. His greatest project was one never realized: the magnificent new palace planned by the King for the Haga Park outside Stockholm. Because of lack of money, only the foundations were ever built and the project was abandoned after the assassination of the King. The smaller "royal pavilion" which stands at Haga was built by architect, Olof Tempelman.[2] [3][6]

His most significant completed project was the conservatory building in the new botanical garden in Uppsala, inaugurated after his death on May 13, 1807, the 100th anniversary of Linnaeus's birth. He also built the Villa Frescati in 1791-92 for Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, after which the whole Frescati area in Stockholm later was named. [7] [2] [3]

Selected works

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  Hämeenlinna Church
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  Copper Tent at Haga Park
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  Conservatory in the Botanical Garden, Uppsala
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  Déjeuner Salon at Drottningholm Castle Theater

See also

• Obelisk at Slottsbacken

References

Other Sources

• Nordisk familjebok
• Richard Godfrey Louis-Jean Desprez (Print Quarterly Vol. 3, No. 3, September 1986, pp. 238–240

На других языках

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[de] Louis Jean Desprez

Louis Jean Desprez (getauft 28. Mai 1743 in Auxerre; † 19. März 1804 in Stockholm) war ein französischer Architekt, Maler und Grafiker, der hauptsächlich in Schweden tätig war.

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- [en] Louis Jean Desprez

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[fr] Louis-Jean Desprez

Louis-Jean Desprez (né en 1743 à Auxerre - décédé le 19 mars 1804 à Stockholm) est un artiste peintre, architecte, et graveur français.

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[it] Louis Jean Desprez

Louis Jean Desprez talvolta citato come Jean Louis Desprez (Auxerre, 1743 – Stoccolma, 18 marzo 1804) è stato un pittore e architetto francese, noto anche come incisore e scenografo, che lavorò in Svezia gli ultimi venti anni della sua vita.

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[ru] Депре, Луи-Жан

Луи-Жан Депре (фр. Louis Jean Desprez; 1743, Осер — 19 марта 1804, Стокгольм) — французский архитектор и художник, много лет проработавший в Швеции.

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