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Jean de Bodt
Jean de Bodt
Born in : Paris - 1670 / Dead in : 1745
As a student of the first academy of architecture in Europe, the Huguenot Jean de Bodt to leave Paris for religious reasons in 1685 and went first to Holland and then to England. In 1699 he was assigned the site supervision for the Berlin Armoury at Unter den Linden. One year later he was appointed director of the Potsdam palaces and gardens.

Biography   
Jean de Bodt signifies in the contemporary Brandenburg architecture a trend towards clear geometric forms, economical accents and systems with well thought-out proportions, in which all parts stand in harmonic relation to one another. The cool rationalism signified however simultaneously refinement and elegance - his Fortuna Gate attained the levels of contemporary French standards.

After Frederick William I took the throne de Bodt went to Dresden in the court of August the Strong and made a rapid career for himself there.

Worked wirh Johann Arnold Nering
Achievement   
Berlin
Artist
Palais Podewil
Outdoor architecture
Jean de Bodt
(from 1701 to 1704)
Zeughaus - Musée de l'Histoire Allemande
Outdoor architecture
Johann Arnold Nering, Martin Grünberg...
(from 1695 to 1706)
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Jean de Bodt

Johann Arnold Nering