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Deglane, Henri-Adolphe-Auguste
(b Paris, 10 Dec 1855: d Laussel, Dordogne, 13 May 1931). French architect and teacher. He entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 1874 as a pupil of Louis-Jules André and won the Prix de Rome in 1881. His student envois from Rome attracted considerable attention, in particular his restoration of the imperial palaces on the Palatine hill. After some success in public competitions, notably for monuments, including the Carnot monument (1881) at Nolay (Côte d’Or), Deglane obtained a number of official posts in Paris, first in the Conseil des Bâtiments Civils (1885), then as Inspecteur des Travaux for the Exposition Universelle (1889) and for the Louvre and Tuileries (1890); he finally became chief architect in the Conseil (1894). His highly original competition project for the rebuilding of the Opéra-Comique (1893) was unsuccessful, but his career as a designer began in earnest in 1896 when he won second prize (with René Binet) in the competition for the Grand-Palais on the Champs-Elysées, intended for the Exposition Universelle of 1900. Commissioned to design the main façade and central exhibition space, Deglane combined a grand stone façade in the French Baroque style, enhanced with polychromy, with a soaring iron-framed structure behind, which utilized the latest structural technology. A series of free-standing sculpted figures completes the palatial character of the building. Deglane’s government work included construction of the government house at Dakar (1904), Senegal, and the French West Africa Pavilion at the Colonial Exhibition (1906), Marseille. Of his private commissions, two of his Parisian blocks of flats, both in the 7e arrondissement, were awarded prizes in the façade competitions held by the City of Paris: at 90 Rue de Grenelle (1906) and at 12 bis Avenue Elisée-Reclus (1910), where a stork motif recurs on the façade in brick, stone and ceramic tiles and in the wrought-iron balconies. Deglane was a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts for 40 years and was elected to the Institut in 1918.
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