Emmanuel Pontremoli

Emmanuel Pontremoli (13 January 1865 – 25 July 1956) was a French architect and archaeologist.^[1]

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Emmanuel Pontremoli
Emmanuel Pontremoli in 1932
Born	(1865-01-13)13 January 1865 Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, French Empire
Died	25 July 1956(1956-07-25) (aged 91) Paris, French Republic
Alma mater	École des Beaux-Arts
Occupation	Architect
Awards	Prix de Rome 1890 Académie des Beaux-Arts 1922 Seat 7

Projects	Villa Kerylos (ca.1900)

Biography

Pontremonli was born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, to a Jewish family from Piedmont;^[2] he studied in the atelier of Louis-Jules André. In 1890, he won the Prix de Rome in the architecture category and in 1922 became a member of the Académie des Beaux Arts. He taught a clinical architecture studio at the Beaux-Arts, alongside André Leconte, a former student and winner of the 1927 Prix de Rome.^[3] Pontremoli was appointed director of the Beaux-Arts in 1932 and is credited with shepherding the school, whose name had become synonymous with neoclassicism, into the twentieth century.^[4]

Pontremoli is best known for his architectural creation of Villa Kerylos for Théodore and Fanny Reinach at Beaulieu-sur-Mer and for the Institute for Human Paleontology in Paris for Albert I, Prince of Monaco.

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Family

In 1899, he married Suzanne Hecht (1876-1956), with whom he had three children: Thérèse (1900-1989), Jean (1902-1940) and Michel (1908-1944).

During the Nazi occupation of France, his sons Michel Pontremoli and Jean Pontremoli enlisted and fought with the French partisan force. In 1944, they both died at the hands of the Nazis.^[5]

Pontremoli and his wife collected art.^[6] The Avenue Emmanuel Pontremoli in Nice is named in his memory.

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Emmanuel Pontremoli

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