David 't Kindt

David 't Kindt (12 January 1699 – 15 July 1770) was a Flemish architect who practised in Ghent and worked in the Rococo style.

[2] He was born in 1699 in Ghent (then in the Austrian Netherlands), where he joined the Carpenters' Guild in 1726, and continued to practise, being appointed municipal director of works for the city in 1755.

At the end of his life, he served as the first director of the Académie Royale de Peinture, Dessin, Sculpture et Architecture.

[1] His work is mainly in the Rococo style, which he and Bernard de Wilde pioneered in Ghent.

[1] An example is the theatre on Vrijdagmarkt of 1744, which features a curved front; Marie Fredericq-Lilar describes its style in t' Kindt's Grove Art Online entry: "sinuous line prevails; every curve is answered by a counter-curve", with "bold" and "soft" elements in balance.