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| Aaron Messiah | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1858-04-16)16 April 1858 Nice, France |
| Died | 28 August 1940(1940-08-28) (aged 82) Nice, France |
| Occupation | Architect |
Aaron Messiah (1858–1940) was an early 20th-century French architect.
Career
Messiah was court architect to Leopold II of Belgium, but his most famous work was the Villa Ephrussi, completed in 1912. At this southern French villa, Messiah successfully synthesized the eclectic collections and ideas of Baroness Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild into a coherent neoclassical whole.
Messiah also built the more grandiose Villa Masséna on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. Like the Villa Ephrussi, the Villa Masséna was an aristocratic French riviera retreat, and represented an apotheosis of southern Europe's craft legacy. This villa was built for the prince Victor Masséna fr, whose family had gained title and wealth under the French emperor Napoléon. Despite its historicism, the villa included an up-to-date porte-cochere, where visitors could enter and leave automobiles without being exposed to the elements.
Personal life
Aaron was the father of the architect Gaston Messiah (1885–1962).
References
- ^ McAuley, James (1 March 2021). The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France. Yale University Press. p. 285. ISBN 978-0-300-23337-7. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
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