Jan Zygmunt Deybel von Hammerau or Johann Sigmund Deybel (born 1685–90,

Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...

; died 1752) was a

Rococo Rococo, less commonly Roccoco ( , ; or ), also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpte ...

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 Augustus II the Strong (12 May 1670 – 1 February 1733), was Elector of Saxony from 1694 as well as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1697 to 1706 and from 1709 until his death in 1733. He belonged to the Albertine branch of the H ...

. 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.

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*https://web.archive.org/web/20130928071646/http://www.warszawa1939.pl/osoba_obiekty.php?osoba_id=156 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 {{Germany-architect-stub