Nicolas de Pigage belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Nicolas de Pigage as French architect.
Nicolas de Pigage was born at Lunéville in 1723. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at Académie Royale d'Architecture.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as architect and art historian.
Among his best-known works are Benrath Palace and La Galerie électorale, de Dusseldorff. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: Prix de Rome.
That the work was built in France shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Nicolas de Pigage died in 1796, aged 73. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Benrath Palace
- Notable work: La Galerie électorale, de Dusseldorff
- Prix de Rome
- Trained at Académie Royale d'Architecture
