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Alte Tonhalle
The Alte Tonhalle was a municipal social and concert hall in Düsseldorf. Description In 1818, the first Lower Rhenish Music Festival, constituted by the , took place in the Geisler'schen Lokal, which became the centre of music lovers from 1830. It was a restaurant with a large wooden hall, which had already been known as ''Becker's Gartenlokal''. In the ''Geisler's Hall'', the audience in 1850 was close to 1000 visitors. In 1863, the city acquired the pub, which was already called ''Tonhalle'' at that time. Famous composers such as Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Norbert Burgmüller, Ferdinand Hiller, Julius Rietz, Ferdinand Ries and Robert Schumann made music there. Joseph Joachim and Jenny Lind participated in concerts here. Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and many great artists of the 19th century celebrated great successes here. Paulus (Mendelssohn), Mendelssohn's Paulus in 1836 and Schumann's ''Der Rose Pilgerfahrt'' and ''Requiem für Mignon'' from 1849 were among others ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alte Städtische Tonhalle In Düsseldorf, 1863, Erweiterung Von 1889 Bis 1892, Architekten Hermann Vom Endt Und Bruno Schmitz, Stadtbaumeister Eberhard Westhofen Und Stadtbaurat Peiffhoven, 1894
Alte is a village and Freguesia (Portugal), civil parish in the municipality of Loulé, in the Algarve region in the south of Portugal. The population in 2011 was 1,997, in an area of 94.33 km². Situated away from the coast, Alte is known as one of the most typical and unspoilt villages in the region of the Algarve. The village contains Algarve style whitewashed houses, traditional chimneys, and cobbled alleys. The Portuguese people, Portuguese poet Cândido Guerreiro was born in Alte, in 1871. Church of Our Lady of the Assumption The Mother Church of Alte or Church of Our Lady of the Assumption is located at the centre of the village of Alte on Largo da Igreja. The first church built here was constructed in the 13th century but this church was rebuilt at the start of the 16th century. The architecture of the church is in the Manueline style. The main west facing façade has a fine doorway with carved stone architraves. Through this door is the Nave. The chancel is decora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simply "c" in all words except surnames; this has led to Liszt's given name being rendered in modern Hungarian usage as "Ferenc". From 1859 to 1867 he was officially Franz Ritter von Liszt; he was created a ''Ritter'' (knight) by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, Francis Joseph I in 1859, but never used this title of nobility in public. The title was necessary to marry the Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein without her losing her privileges, but after the marriage fell through, Liszt transferred the title to his uncle Eduard in 1867. Eduard's son was Franz von Liszt., group=n (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and teacher of the Romantic music, Romantic period. With a diverse List of compositions by Franz L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malkastenpark
The Malkastenpark (Paintbox park) is a historic private park, now in the centre of Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The name refers to a group of artists, Malkasten, founded in 1848. The park is also known as the Jacobigarten, after the original owners who created a Baroque garden. It is now a public garden with both Baroque features and English landscape garden elements, and a listed historic monument. Location The park is located next to the , between Malkastenstraße, Jacobistraße, Pempelforter Straße and Louise-Dumont-Straße. It is just under three hectares in size, and runs along the northern Düssel stream. History In the 18th century, several country houses surrounded by gardens were near Schloss Jägerhof called Pempelfort. , a merchant and councilor of commerce, acquired a small estate there in 1742 which became a meeting place for artists and philosophers. It was enhanced by a French formal garden with parterre and avenue. In the 1770s, hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmut Hentrich
Helmut Hentrich (17 June 1905 – 7 February 2001) was a German architect who became particularly known for his striking high-rise buildings in the 1960s and 1970s. The architectural firm he founded, ''Hentrich, Petschnigg und Partner (HPP)'', still exists under the name . Life Education Born in Krefeld, Hentrich was the son of the civil engineer Hubert Hentrich. Already during his school years, he was interested in art, architecture and completed internships in the architectural offices of and Franz Brantzky. After graduating from high school, Hentrich initially gave in to his father's urging and began studying law at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg in Breisgau in 1922, but switched to the architecture faculty of the Vienna University of Technology in 1924 and a year later to the Technical University of Berlin to study under Hans Poelzig, Heinrich Tessenow and Hermann Jansen. In Berlin, Hentrich became acquainted with modern architecture, which was on the rise, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portico
A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many cultures, including most Western cultures. Some noteworthy examples of porticos are the East Portico of the United States Capitol, the portico adorning the Pantheon in Rome and the portico of University College London. Porticos are sometimes topped with pediments. Palladio was a pioneer of using temple-fronts for secular buildings. In the UK, the temple-front applied to The Vyne, Hampshire, was the first portico applied to an English country house. A pronaos ( or ) is the inner area of the portico of a Greek or Roman temple, situated between the portico's colonnade or walls and the entrance to the ''cella'', or shrine. Roman temples commonly had an open pronaos, usually with only columns and no walls, and the pronaos could be as long as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eberhard Westhofen
Eberhard Westhofen (1820 1892) was a German architect and building official. He worked as a country architect in Cologne until 1847 and then as 'city architect' in Düsseldorf. Life In November 1850 he married Johanna, a née von Thenen and moved into a flat on . In 1854 he moved to Wasserstraße in . In 1888 Westhofen retired and received the Order of the Red Eagle IV. Class. Last residence at 2, Eberhard Westhofen died in 1892. Realisations * Höhere Bürgerschule (Oberrealschule) at Fürstenwall 100, 1888. * Neues Rathaus, Düsseldorf, 1884 * Kunstgewerbeschule Düsseldorf at Burgplatz, 1883 * Chapel in the Nordfriedhof, 1883 * New gate at Schlossturm Düsseldorf, 1883 * Leichenhaus, Golzheimer Friedhof, 1875 (destroyed during the Second World War) * Municipal slaughterhouse in Golzheimer Insel, 1874 * Städtisches Lagerhaus, Reuterkaserne 1, 1866. * Alte Tonhalle The Alte Tonhalle was a municipal social and concert hall in Düsseldorf. Description I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Schmitz
Bruno Schmitz (21 November 1858 – 27 April 1916) was a German architect best known for his monuments in the early 20th century. He worked closely with sculptors such as Emil Hundrieser, Nikolaus Geiger and Franz Metzner for integrated architectural and sculptural effect. Schmitz was born in Düsseldorf. His single most famous work is the massive 1913 Völkerschlachtdenkmal (Monument to the Battle of the Nations) located in Leipzig, Saxony, designed with local architect Clemens Thieme. The Monument was inaugurated in 1913 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. Bohemian sculptor Franz Metzner designed the architectural figures, including the powerful and strangely scaled ''Masks of Fate'' in the monument's crypt. Along with the Leipzig monument, Schmitz designed the Kyffhäuser Monument and the Kaiser Wilhelm Monument at Porta Westfalica, bringing him the distinction of designing the three largest war monuments in Germany. All of them are rough, primitive masonry structures in a style t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Vom Endt
Hermann vom Endt (18 July 1861 – 27 September 1939) was a German architect. Life Born in Dusseldorf, Endt studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1876 to 1878. Baufach und Baukunst under and became a member of the Malkasten (Künstlerverein), Malkasten Künstlerverein. After graduating, he first worked in Berlin as an assistant in the studio of the renowned architects Karl von Großheim, Kayser & von Großheim. Later he travelled to Western Europe, Italy and Denmark for further training. Vom Endt planned more than twenty buildings in Düsseldorf's city centre, mainly commercial and administrative buildings. He also built churches and residential buildings. In addition, he was active as a juror in architectural competitions, on the committee of managing architects of the Association of German Architects. Vom Endt favoured the Historism, historicist Architectural style and used a Neoclassical architecture, neoclassicist and Baroque Revival architecture Baroque Revival a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
