Joseph Moutschen
Joseph Moutschen (18 March 1895 at Jupille, Belgium – 22 December 1977 at Jupille), was a Modernist Belgian architect.
Biography[edit]
Moutschen entered the Liège Académie des Beaux-Arts at the age of nine. He received his diploma in 1917 and entered the Association des Architectes de Liège in 1923. He became a professor, then director of the Académie de Beaux-Arts de Liège from 1948 to 1960. Moutschen designed a number of projects around Liège characterized by a pragmatic approach and an extreme sobriety of style. He is most remembered for the Albert I Memorial on the Albert Canal at Liège, built in the form of a lighthouse.
Moutschen was a founding member of the International Union of Architects and a member of its executive committee in 1948. He was president of the Belgian Fédération Royale des Architects until 1959.
Projects[edit]
- The Pont-barrage de Monsin at Liège, 1930 [1][2]
- Institute of Civil Engineering at Val-Benoît, 1937, on the quai Banning at Liège, in the Bauhaus style of Walter Gropius.
- Jules Seeliger Surgical Institute, rue Jonfosse at Liège (1936–1939)
- "Aérogare 58" at the Brussels Airport, Zaventem, in collaboration with Georges Bontinck de Gand and Maxime Brunfaut, 1958
- Albert I Memorial, monument at the entry to the Albert Canal at Liège, esplanadeand park inaugurated 30 July 1939. Sculptors were Louis Dupont. The 42 metres (138 ft) tower is topped by a lighthouse, with a sculpture of Belgian King Albert I.[3]
- Institute of Civil Engineering, on the quai Banning along the Meuse
Other buildings[edit]
- Wandre school
- Jupille scholl
- Romsée school, 1959
- The majority of the pumping stations for the Association Intercommunale pour le Démergement et l'Épuration of Liège
- L'hôtel de Ville de Jemeppe avec B. Sélerin et J. Mullenaerts.
- La Salle Prevert, Jupille
- Fontaine Charlemagne, sculptor; Oscar Berchmans.
- Garden city of Tribouilet, 1922. Executed for the International Exposition of 1930, a collection of inexpensive houses in a variety of styles by architects including Moutschen, Louis Herman de Koninck, Victor Bourgeois and Fernand Bodson.
- Cité des Cortils (1925–1935)[4]
- "Gallo-Roman" town, Jupille
- "Héros of Rabosée" Monument at Wandre, A. Fivet, statuary, F. Close, sculptor
- House of the architect, 40 Rue Jean-Jaures Jupille, 1932
- Monument to the Belgian Repression[5] of Grâce-Berleur, 1952
- Mi-la-Ville footbridge at Jupille[6]
Publications[edit]
- Souvenirs sur Frank Lloyd Wright, Cité et Tekhne 10 November 1931
- BATIR, 15 July 1935, Issue dedicated to Joseph Moutschen, Paris 1935
- Université de Liège, Institute of Civil Engineering
Family[edit]
His brother Jean Moutschen (1900–1951), was also an architect. His brother Michel Moutschen (1923–1947) was a war correspondent for the Associated Press, killed by a sniper in Vietnam.[7] His son Jean Moutschen-Dahmen (1929–2001) was Professor Emeritus of fundamental genetics at the University of Liège.[citation needed]
References[edit]
- ^ Pierre Frankignoulle, L'Université de Liège dans sa ville (1817–1989 ). Une étude d'histoire urbaine, Bruxelles, 2005.
- ^ Vide aussi Les cahiers de l'Urbanisme n° 73, septembre 2009 pp52-56
- ^ Émile Coenen, La forteresse de l'île Monsin, archives mises en dépôt au C.L.H.A.M.
- ^ Liège, publié par Thérèse Cortembos
- ^ vide: question royale: le drame de Grâce-Berleur de 1950
- ^ souvent décrite par les autochtones comme un vstige du myen-âge , com. pers. de son petit fils
- ^ "AP reporter killed". Waco Times-Herald. Associated Press. 10 February 1947. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
External links[edit]
- Photographs of Moutschen works at Mémoire Photographique de Liège
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