CUVILLIS, FRANOIS DE, THE ELDER

born Oct. 23, 1695, Soignies, Hainaut died April 14, 1768, Munich chief architect and decorator in the Bavarian Rococo style. He was trained in Paris before his appointment (1725) as court architect to Duke Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria. Among his works in Munich and its environs are the Amalienburg hunting lodge, Nymphenburg (173439); the Residenztheater (175053); and the facade of St. Cajetan's Church (Theatinerkirche; 176568). His son Franois de Cuvillis the Younger (173177) also was an architect in the Rococo idiom.