Jan Sigismund von Deybel Hammerau or Johann Sigmund Deybel (born 1685–90, Saxony; died 1752) was a Rococo architect from Saxony mainly active in Poland. He also served as a captain (from 1736) then as a major (1746) in the Polish artillery — his son was the general Krystian Godfryd Deybel de Hammerau.

Life

From 1719 to 1721 he worked in Warsaw's royal buildings office and from 1726 was architect to Augustus II the Strong. He used French architectural forms from the three-volume 1727-37 L'Architecture française by J. Mariette. His pupils included Ephraim Szreger and Zygmunt Vogel.

Jan Zygmunt Deybel

External links

https://web.archive.org/web/20130928071646/http://www.warszawa1939.pl/osoba_obiekty.php?osoba_id=156

Jan Zygmunt Deybel

Architects from Warsaw

17th-century German architects

18th-century German architects

Architects from Saxony

1680s births

1752 deaths

Polish people of German descent

Military personnel of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Rococo architects

Jan Zygmunt Deybel