Visit of the temporary exhibition "Raymond Marabout, an art deco architect in Mantes-la-Jolie"

Name: Visit of the temporary exhibition "Raymond Marabout, an art deco architect in Mantes-la-Jolie"
Start: 2023-09-16T11:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T15:30:00+02:00
Location: Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu

The second part of the series of exhibitions devoted to the architecture of the city, the exhibition Raymond Marabout, an Art Deco architect in Mantes-la-Jolie retraces the life and career of this arc

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Free on registration

Registration

0134788660 reservation.patour@manteslajolie.fr

Archives municipales de Mantes-la-Jolie

Second part of the cycle of exhibitions devoted to the architecture of the city, the exhibition Raymond Marabout, an Art Deco architect in Mantes-la-Jolie traces the life and career of this architect and his role for Mantes-la-Jolie and the architecture of thetwo wars on a regional scale. A true pillar of the artistic and political life of the interwar period, Raymond Marabout (1886-1957) was appointed head of the works, roads and water department of Mantes in 1922 and remained in the service of the city for thirty years. In addition to his construction work on communal buildings, he spent his life housing the Mantais, working to resolve the housing crisis, hand in hand with Auguste Goust, mayor of Mantes from 1908 to 1947. The exhibition aims to trace the life and career of this architect through 80 plans and archival documents highlighting some issues specific to his time: social housing, school architecture, the Decorative Art style.

About the location

Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu

1 rue Thiers 78200 Mantes-la-Jolie

Yvelines
Île-de-France

Labelled Musée de France in 2002, the Hôtel-Dieu museum is located near the Notre-Dame collegiate church. Built in the fourteenth century under the reign of Charles V and heavily redesigned in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the building underwent new assignments from the eighteenth century: prison under the Revolution, hospice, orphanage then, successively, theatre, café, cinema and ballroom before being acquired by the City in 1962\. The chapel of the Hotel-Dieu was declared a Historical Monument in 1948 for its 17th century facade and listed as a Historical Monument for the rest of the building in 1964\. The restoration of the building completed, the museum was inaugurated in 1996\. The museum houses a lapidary collection from the Collegiate Church and the church of Sainte-Anne de Gassicourt, as well as works by the post-impressionist painter Maximilien Luce (1851-1941), illustrating the themes of the landscape in the Seine Valley, river tourism, industrial growth and the c