Louis Jean Desprez

Louis Jean Desprez

Louis Jean Desprez (occasionally but incorrectly "Jean Louis Desprez"; ca 1743–18 March 1804) was a French painter and architect who worked in Sweden during the last twenty years of his life.

Desprez, who was born in Auxerre in Bourgogne, studied architecture and was awarded the Great Prize of the Académie d'architecture in 1770. He traveled frequently to Italy and was associated with Piranesi in Rome, when he came to the attention of Swedish King Gustavus III, 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 "Gustavus Vasa" (with a libretto authored by the King in collaboration with Johan Henric Kellgren and music by Johann Gottlieb Naumann).

As architect, Desprez built in a monumental, neoclassical style influenced by his study of Greek and Roman ruins in the south of Italy and on Sicily. 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 another architect, Olof Tempelman. 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.

References

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See also

* Obelisk at Slottsbacken


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