Victor Laloux

Victor Laloux studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris and French Academy in Rome. Training under Louis Jules André is recorded. Alfred Agache, Henri Pottier and Yves Hémar are recorded as having studied under Victor Laloux. The recorded working language is French. Employment is recorded with Beaux-Arts de Paris. Positions recorded include president and chairperson. Works named in the authority record are Basilica of St. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome, Royal Gold Medal, AIA Gold Medal and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour.

• Name — Victor-Alexandre-Frédéric Laloux • Born — 15 November 1850 • Birthplace — Tours, France • Died — 13 July 1937 • Place of death — Paris, France • Education — * École des Beaux-Arts (atelier of Louis-Jules André) • Occupation — Architect • Movement — Beaux-Arts architecture • Significant Buildings — * Basilica of St. Martin, Tours • Gare de Tours • Gare d'Orsay (now Musée d'Orsay) • Hôtel de Ville, Roubaix • Hôtel de Ville, Tours • Crédit Lyonnais headquarters (Paris) • U.S. Embassy, Paris • Palais du Hanovre, Paris • Awards — * AIA Gold Medal (1922) • Royal Gold Medal (1929) • Illustration — Hôtel de Ville, Tours • Illustration — interior, Gare d'Orsay, now the Musée d'Orsay, 1900

Born in Tours, Laloux studied at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts atelier of Louis-Jules André, with his studies interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War, and was awarded the annual Prix de Rome in 1878. He spent 1879 through 1882 at the Villa Medici in Rome.

On his return to France Laloux rose quickly through the academic system, serving on many juries, societies and foundations. As practitioner, he produced major commissions in a highly ornamented neo-classical surface style, collaborating with sculptors and muralists squarely in the Beaux-Arts tradition, but doing so on innovative cast-iron frames. Metal framing allowed higher interior spaces, more generous fenestration, and glass roofs, notably in the sunlit barrel-vault of the Gare d'Orsay. Laloux was awarded the American AIA Gold Medal in 1922, and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1929. In 1932, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Corresponding Academician. In 1936, the year before his death, his successor as head of the atelier was his own student, Charles Lemaresquier. He died in Paris, aged 86.

• Illustration — Gare de Tours, Tours Laloux's work includes: • the neo-Byzantine Basilica of St. Martin, Tours, in Tours, 1886–1924 – a project with some political connotations as it was built to replace an earlier Basilica destroyed during the French Revolution. • Gare de Tours, in Tours, 1896–1898, with four allegorical limestone statues of cities by Jean Antoine Injalbert (Bordeaux and Toulouse) and Jean-Baptiste Hugues (Limoges and Nantes) • the Paris Gare d'Orsay, now the Musée d'Orsay, 1900 • Hôtel de Ville, Roubaix, with architectural sculpture by Alphonse-Amédée Cordonnier, 1903 • Hôtel de Ville, Tours, with sculpture by Injalbert, Hugues, Cordonnier and others, 1904 • completion of the Crédit Lyonnais headquarters, Paris, 1913 • the U.S. Embassy, Paris, with his student, American architect William Delano, 1931 • Palais du Hanovre, Paris, with his student Charles Lemaresquier, 1932

The authorities additionally record the headings Victor-Alexandre-Frédéric Laloux, Victor Alexandre Frederic Laloux, Victor Alexandre Frédéric Laloux, Victor-Alexandre-Frédèric Laloux and Victor-Alexandre-Frederic Laloux. His recorded language was French.

Victor Laloux is recorded as architect.