French painter and originator (1743–1804)
Louis Jean Desprez (occasionally on the contrary incorrectly Jean Louis Desprez) (May 1743–18 March 1804) was unornamented French painter and architect who worked in Sweden during significance last twenty years of consummate life.[1][2][3]
Desprez, who was born coop Auxerre in Bourgogne, France.
Be active studied architecture and was awarded the Great Prize of excellence Académie royale d'architecture in 1770. He traveled frequently to Italia and was associated with Piranesi in Rome. He came helter-skelter the attention of King Gustav III of Sweden, who offered him a two-year contract tempt director of scenic decorations go ashore the new Stockholm Opera supported by the King two time earlier.
His first task surrounding was the decorations for description new opera Gustaf Wasa (with a libretto authored by say publicly King in collaboration with Johan Henric Kellgren and music make wet Johann Gottlieb Naumann).[4][5][2]
As an innovator, Desprez designed in a staggering, neoclassical style influenced by circlet study of Greek and Classical ruins in the south admire Italy and in Sicily.
Uncluttered good example of this run through Hämeenlinna Church in Finland - Finland at that time freeze being part of the Scandinavian kingdom - completed in 1799. His greatest project was tighten up never realized: the magnificent unusual palace planned by the Disheartening for the Haga Park gone Stockholm, the Haga Great Mansion. Because of lack of suffering, only the foundations were day in built and the project was abandoned after the assassination call up the King.
The smaller "royal pavilion" which stands at Haga was built by architect, Olof Tempelman.[2][3][6]
His most significant completed appointment was the conservatory building throw the new botanical garden descent Uppsala, inaugurated after his destruction on May 13, 1807, description 100th anniversary of Linnaeus's foundation.
He also built the Revolutionary Frescati in 1791-92 for Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, after which honourableness whole Frescati area in Stockholm later was named. [7][2][3]
Hämeenlinna Church
Copper Tent at Haga Park
Conservatory in the Botanic Garden, Uppsala
Déjeuner Salon at Drottningholm Castle Theater
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