Jacques Brion (1843-1910)
Son of the painter Gustave Adolphe B.
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Jacques Albert Brion studied in Paris between 1865 & 1868. He
began to work in Mulhouse, then in Strasbourg from 1871. He built not
only the Institute of Anatomie
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(1874), the Institute of Physiologic Chemistry
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(1883), the Gynecologic Clinic
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(1886), but also synagogues, schools, town halls. He became associate
with Jules Berninger and realized private buildings, among them:
- Shop Dusch & Cie (26,
Fossé des Tanneurs), 1889
- Apartment house Voltz (17, avenue de la Liberté),
1890-91
- Shop Haas & Levy (40, rue du
Vieux-Marché-aux-Vins), 1892
- Villa Burger (20, avenue de la Paix), (1891-92)
- Villa Clog (29, allée de la Robertsau, (1891-92)
- Villa Klein (7, rue Lamey), (1891-92)
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With Eugène Haug, he erected the following
houses:
- Hotel-restaurant "Maison Rouge"
(Place Kléber), 1898. Its winter garden was lit with art
nouveau stained glass windows.
- Offices of the insurance company "Rhin &
Moselle" (5, rue Joffre), 1898
- Strassburger Bank (24, rue du
Vieux-Marché-aux-Vins), 1897
- Apartment house (67, avenue des Vosges), 1902
- Apartment house (47, avenue des Vosges), 1903
- Department store Tietz (5, quai de Paris), 1905
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Et petit-neveu de Frédérique BRION (1752-1813),
laquelle devint célèbre pour ses amours
éphémères avec Goethe.
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Dans l'anceinte des Hospices Civils.
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