page_title: Hans-Georg Tersling
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Hans-Georg Tersling / Career
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Façade de la Villa Masséna (actuel Musée Masséna) à Nice, (Alpes-Maritimes, France)
context_page_description: Hans-Georg Tersling was a Danish architect who lived and worked for most of his life on the French Riviera where he became one of the most significant and productive architects of the Belle Époque. His work mainly consisted of designing mondain hotels, villas and mansions for members of the French and European aristocracy and other elite who resided in the area.
  His style was the Neoclassical Louis Seize style and he drew on inspiration from the Italian Renaissance.
context_section_description: After his graduation, Tersling traveled to France where he was employed by Charles Garnier to work on the Monte Carlo Casino where he completed the Salle Schemitt. After this assignment he lived for a while in Paris before ultimately settling in Menton in the south of France.
  At Cape Martin between Menton and Nice, he was commissioned by a consortium headed by the Mr White of Black & White whisky, to design the Grand Hotel. The hotel was an instant international success with the emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria staying at the hotel four times between 1896 and 1897.
  Mr White also engaged Tersling to build three stately villas in the surroundings. The first of these, Villa Cyrnos, completed in 1892, was built for Eugénie de Montijo, the last Empress consort of the French. The second was for his own use and the third, Les Rochers, was for his close friend Mr Blake in 1908.
  The villa he designed for Eugénie de Montijo impressed the Russian Empress Consort who commissioned him to build a Russian Orthodox church in Menton for the Russian colony on the coast.
  Among his other clients were Elisabeth of Bavaria and the French politician Victor Masséna whose villa in Nice today serves as the municipal Musée Masséna.
  In 1905, Tersling won an architectural competition for the design of the Hotel Hériot in Paris.
  Back in Menton, he designed the town's casino which was completed in 1909. It now houses the Galerie d’Art du Palais de l’Europe, a contemporary arts museum.
caption: The Villa Masséna in Nice, now the Musée Masséna
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