Feine's Brother

 

Coming from a family of architects, Louis FEINE has worked with his father Alfred Achille Napoleon and his younger brother, Albert, 223 Boulevard St-Germain in Paris. The young man graduated from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1895 at the age of 27 years. A few years later, around 1899, he answered the call of Albert DIETRICH conceived and with him the first plans of the Alsatian remains Obernai.

 

In 1902, the architect René Lalique makes a mansion in Art Nouveau style in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, at 40 cours Albert Ist. The rigid façade, punctuated by numerous windows, is decorated on the theme of the pine cone. The building will be classified in the supplementary inventory of historical monuments shortly before the war of 1939 and its neo-renaissance roof will be protected in 1964.

 

Later, Louis FEINE working with his classmate, Ernest HERSCHER, known as an engraver, the album Frontispieces for imaginary books of Paul Valery. They design set in 1905 a project of large auditorium amphitheater, designed in the center of Paris on the Place du Carrousel, in front of the gardens of the former Tuileries Palace. Beyond the social significance of the project, interest and originality of the project is based on two ideas: respect the environment by the construction of the amphitheater below the soil without burying the building level not exceeding that of the place and gardens; the other is to cover it with a retractable roof playing on mobile color, electric light and natural light, using glass, iron, bronze and electricity.

 

The implementation of the resources of modern industry, inherent in the realization of their ideas, reveals what seems the chosen field of Louis FEINE. The state acquires the model in 1910. In 1919, on the occasion of the exhibition at the Grand Palais, the two architects have changed their project entitled Draft memorial of our victories, raised in Paris, in the Louvre, the Hairy glory. Unfortunately he remained unanswered. Meanwhile (1910), FEINE realizes a low-rent building at 17 boulevard Bessières for the Society of Hygiene income housing.