Jean Walter
Illustration — Plaque affixed to the Hôtel de Chalon-Luxembourg, n°26, rue Geoffroy-l'Asnier (Paris, 4th rounding.) Jean Walter, (Montbéliard, 1883, Dordives – 1957), was a French architect who mainly worked for public housing, hospital architecture, and condominiums.
Jean Walter
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- Full name
- Jean Georges Henri Walter.
- Born
- 1883. · Montbéliard.
- Died
- 1957. · Dordives.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- architect, french resistance fighter, writer, industrialist and patron of the arts.
- Fields
- Art Deco.
- Education
- Special School of Architecture.
- Known for
- Paris Medical Faculty, Lille university hospital - Centre hospitalier universitaire de Lille, Beaujon Hospital, Immeubles Walter and Lion de Peugeot.
- Honours
- Commander of the Legion of Honour.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — Plaque affixed to the Hôtel de Chalon-Luxembourg, n°26, rue Geoffroy-l'Asnier (Paris, 4th rounding.) Jean Walter, (Montbéliard, 1883, Dordives – 1957), was a French architect who mainly worked for public housing, hospital architecture, and condominiums.
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Jean Walter studied at Special School of Architecture. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are Art Deco. Positions recorded include military attaché. Works named in the authority record are Paris Medical Faculty, Lille university hospital - Centre hospitalier universitaire de Lille, Beaujon Hospital, Immeubles Walter and Lion de Peugeot. Distinctions recorded are Commander of the Legion of Honour.
After his graduation in 1902 from the École Spéciale d'Architecture, he participated in the First World War, which he ended after an injury as a military attaché for Georges Clemenceau. Having detected in 1925 a rich ore body of lead and zinc close to Oujda in Morocco, he founded in 1935 the "Société des mines de Zellidja", which brought him wealth and notoriety. In 1941, he married Domenica Guillaume, the widow of art dealer Paul Guillaume. He died suspiciously in 1957 after being hit by a car, leading some to speculate that his wife was responsible for his death.
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Montbéliard.
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- 1.France 5. Domenica ou la diabolique de l'art.
- 2.Noce, Vincent. Domenica dans ses basses œuvres. Libération. 11 February 2010.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 9
- « La première cité-jardin de France : Cité coopérative de Draveil », L’Architecture, Paris, 1914, pp. 237–241.
- F. Honoré, « Un hôpital "en hauteur" à Clichy », L’illustration, n°4614, 8 août 1931, Paris, 1931, pp. 494–495.
- Julius Posener, « Le nouvel hôpital Beaujon à Clichy », Architecture d’aujourd’hui, 1934, n°9, Boulogne, 1934, pp. 17–22.
- Jean Favier, « Le Concours de la Cité Hospitalière de Lille », La Construction Moderne, 50e année, n° 9, Paris, 2 décembre 1934, pp. 198–215.
- Notice sur la Cité hospitalière de Lille, Lille, Imprimerie L. Danel, sans date et sans nom d’auteur, ca. 1937, 8 p. :ill.
- Jean Walter, Renaissance de l’architecture médicale, Paris, E. Desfossés, 1945, 209 p. :ill.
- Stéphanie Samson, Le transfert de l’hôpital Beaujon à Clichy, mémoire de maîtrise, Université de Paris I, 1996, 200 p. :ill.
- Florence Trystam, La Dame au grand chapeau, l’histoire vraie de Domenica Walter Guillaume, Paris, Flammarion, 1996, 252 p.
- Merry Bromberger, Comment ils ont fait fortune, 1954 (Plon)
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