page_title: Paul du Ry
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Paul du Ry / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Palais Bellevue in Kassel, Germany used as observatory Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr: Atlas novus coelestis (…), Nürnberg 1742. Deutsch: Ansicht des Palais Bellvue in Kassel im Ursprünglichen Zustand als Sternwarte 1742 Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr: Atlas novus coelestis (…), Nürnberg 1742.
context_page_description: Jean Paul du Ry was a French architect and Huguenot refugee who was responsible for a number of baroque buildings in Kassel, Hesse, Germany.
context_section_description: The Oberneustadt was laid out in six large rectangular blocks on a terrace overlooking the Fulda. 
  It extended to the southwest of the old town, from which it was separated by a newly created square.
  Du Ry connected the Oberneustadt ramparts to the existing fortifications.
  There is an octagonal church in the center, the Karlskirche, built between 1698 and 1706 and consecrated in 1710.
  The houses were two or three stories high, with plastered facades. Some had gables and balconies. They were plain but uniform and well-proportioned.
  Many of them were destroyed in World War II (1939–1940).
  Paul du Ry also laid out the model village of Carlsdorf and its surrounding agricultural land for a group of Huguenot refugees.
  The village was named after the Landgrave.
  In Kassel in 1696 Du Ry remodelled the Ottoneum theatre, designing the porch with double balcony and the sides.
  The Ottoneum was the first permanent theatre in Germany, designed by Wilhelm Vernukken and built in 1604-05 for the Landgrave Maurice the Learned.
  Du Ry converted the building into an art gallery to hold the Landgrave Charles's paintings, biological and astronomical objects and curiosities.
  In 1885 it became a natural history museum.
  Between 1703 and 1711 Du Ry designed the Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, now a museum, probably the most typical of the Huguenot structures in the city, and the Palais Prinz Georg.
  He may have been involved in the design of the Orangerie in the Karlsaue, but this is debated.
  He built the Bellevue Palace in 1714, now a museum devoted to the Brothers Grimm.
  This was originally an observatory for the Landgrave Charles I.
  His buildings follow the Dutch rather than French tradition of Baroque Classicism.
caption: Bellevue Palace in 1742, used as an observatory by Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr
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