Ludvig Adolph Petersen (31 May 1848 – 10 April 1935) was a

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architect, teacher, and a founding member and board member of the

Danish Association of Architects The Danish Association of Architects ( Danish: , abbreviated to AA), is an independent professional body for architects in Denmark. History The Danish Association of Architects was founded at the initiative of L. A. Petersen on 21 November 187 ...

. Petersen primarily worked as an architect in

Vejle Vejle () is a city in Denmark, in the southeast of the Jutland Peninsula at the head of Vejle Fjord, where the Vejle River and Grejs River and their valleys converge. It is the site of the councils of Vejle Municipality ('' kommune'') and th ...

and Aarhus.

Career

Petersen was originally trained as a carpenter between 1865 and 1868. He attended the

Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts ( da, Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi - Billedkunst Skolerne) has provided education in the arts for more than 250 years, playing its part in the development of the art of Denmark. History The Royal Dan ...

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

, where he graduated with a degree in architecture. Between 1872 and 1880, he was a teacher at the technical school in Copenhagen. He later moved to

, where he worked both as a teacher and principal in the Vejle Technical School between 1880 and 1888. From 1888 to 1918, Petersen lived and worked in Aarhus as a teacher at the city's technical school. From 1877 to 1880, he worked as the conductor at the renovation of

Aarhus Cathedral Aarhus Cathedral ( da, Århus Domkirke) is a cathedral in Aarhus, Denmark. It is the longest and tallest church in the country, at in length and in height. The construction of Aarhus Cathedral began in the 12th century and it is the main edific ...

under

Vilhelm Theodor Walther Vilhelm Theodor Walther (13 November 1819 – 28 August 1892) was a Danish architect and Royal Building Inspector for Jutland. He was born in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark and died in Aarhus. He was twice awarded the Academy's Neuhausen Prize (''Neuhaus ...

. In 1880, Petersen opened his own architects' practice. Among Petersen's best known works are a number of schools in Aarhus; Technical School on ''Ingerslevs Plads'' and the elementary schools in ''Finsensgade'', ''N.J. Fjords Gade'', ''Paradisgade'', ''Ny Munkegade'' and ''Læssøesgade''. His works architecturally shift between different Historicist styles. The tower on St. Nicolai Church and ''Missionshuset'' in Vejle have a

Neo-Gothic Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

appearance with red brick and pointy-arched windows. The tower has stepped

buttress A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall. Buttresses are fairly common on more ancient buildings, as a means of providing support to act against the lateral ( ...

es in the corners and a wide cornice-frieze while ''Missionshuset'' has frieze and windows framed by yellow brick. The Neo-Gothic style is a common element in many of Ludvig Petersen's school buildings while Vejle Theater is an example of

Baroque Revival architecture The Baroque Revival, also known as Neo-Baroque (or Second Empire architecture in France and Wilhelminism in Germany), was an architectural style of the late 19th century. The term is used to describe architecture and architectural sculptur ...

. File:Læssøesgades Skole 2.jpg, Læssøesgades School File:Samsøgade Skole.jpg, Samsøgades School N.J. Fjordsgades Skole 3.jpg, N.J. Fjordsgades School

Personal life

Ludvig's parents were Zacharias Petersen, a ship's builder at Holmen in Copenhagen and teacher at the

, and Emilie Sophie Thortsen. His brother was

Edvard Petersen Edvard Petersen (4 February 1841 – 5 December 1911) was a Danish painter. He also designed the Stork Fountain on Amagertorv in Copenhagen. Petersen, Edvard Frederik ''Dansk biografisk Lexikon'' Access date January 1, 2021 Biography From 18 ...

, a painter and teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts. He married Agnes Theodora Walther, the daughter of Vilhelm Theodor Walther, in 1881. Their son is the botanist and sketch artist Vagn Petersson. Petersen died on 10 April 1935 and is buried at

Holmens Cemetery Holmen Cemetery ( Danish: Holmens Kirkegård) is the oldest cemetery still in use in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was first located next to the naval Church of Holmen in the city centre but relocated to its current site on Dag Hammarskjölds Allé in t ...

in Copenhagen.

References

External references

* Ludvig Adolph Petersen on Wikimedia Commons {{DEFAULTSORT:Petersen, Ludvig Danish architects Architects from Copenhagen 1848 births 1935 deaths Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni