Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar

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Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar
Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert

Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar (1811–1880) was a Belgian architect. He is the father of the Cluysenaar family.

Family

Cluysenaar was born in

Kampen in the Netherlands as a son of Joannes Kluysenaar and Garidenia Kluysenaar, a Dutch family of architects and engineers. Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar was the father of the Cluysenaar family. His descendants became famous Belgian painters, sculptors and architects. During the United Kingdom of the Netherlands
his family settled in the southern Belgian provinces.

Career

Cluysenaar studied architecture at the

Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels under Tilman-François Suys. His teacher influenced him in his preference for the architecture of the Italian Renaissance
.

Cluysenaar had a talent for business. He took the initiative for some very profitable real estate projects—such as the

Royal Saint-Hubert Galleries in Brussels—in which he played the double role of architect and co-financier. He also had a good reputation amongst the Belgian nobility and high bourgeoisie. He received many commissions for designing large town houses (so called "hôtels"), mansions and châteaux. Cluysenaar was always prepared to adapt his designs to the desires and taste of his elite patrons. The many private mansions he built greatly differ in style. He designed elegant Palladian villas, as well as more sturdy neo-Gothic
castles.

His stylistic versatility is also apparent in the many public buildings he designed, such as the

neo-Renaissance Royal Conservatory in Brussels and the "Tudor style" railway station in Aalst
.

List of works

A brief selection of the more than 200 projects in which Cluysenaar was involved:

Châteaux and other private residences

De Viron Castle, Dilbeek (1862)

Public buildings

  • 1840: Bandstand in Brussels Park
  • 1845–1847:
    Royal Saint-Hubert Galleries
    shopping arcade, in Brussels
  • 1846: Concert Hall in Aachen, Germany
  • 1847: Panorama de la rue Royale stairs and terraces surrounding the Congress Column, in Brussels (demolished)
  • 1847: Magdalena Market (Marché de la Madeleine/Magdalenamarkt) covered market, in Brussels (partly demolished)
  • 1848: Bortier Gallery shopping arcade, in Brussels
  • 1851, 1862–1866: Theatre and "Kurhaus" in Bad Homburg, Germany
  • Railway stations for the Société Dendre et Waes in
    Zandbergen
    (1860)
  • 1852: Hôpital des Aveugles (home for blind people), near the Halle Gate, in Brussels
  • 1855–1862: Iron church (Église de fer) in Argenteuil (Waterloo)
  • 1872–1876: Royal Conservatory, Rue de la Régence/Regentschapsstraat, in Brussels

References

  • Fanny Cluysenaar (Madame Veuve Henry Heymans), Les Cluysenaar: une famille d’artistes, Brussels, Weissenbruch, 1928.
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