Ludwig Lange (22 March 1808– 31 March 1868) was a German architect and

landscape design Landscape design is an independent profession and a design and art tradition, practiced by landscape designers, combining nature and culture. In contemporary practice, landscape design bridges the space between landscape architecture and garde ...

er.

Life

He was the son of a court official and began his training as an architect in 1823 under church designer Georg August Lerch. From 1826 to 1830, he attended the

University of Gießen University of Giessen, official name Justus Liebig University Giessen (german: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), is a large public research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany. It is named after its most famous faculty member, Justus von L ...

where he studied with

Georg Moller Georg Moller (21 January 1784 – 13 March 1852) was an architect and a town planner who worked in the South of Germany, mostly in the region today known as Hessen. Life and family background Moller was born in Diepholz, a descendant of an old ...

. His studies continued in Munich, where he was a pupil of the landscape painter

Carl Rottmann Carl Anton Joseph Rottmann (11 January 1797, in Handschuhsheim – 7 July 1850, in Munich) was a German landscape painter and the most famous member of the Rottmann family of painters. Rottmann belonged to the circle of artists around King Lud ...

, with whom he undertook a study trip to Greece in 1834. In 1835, he was appointed to be a drawing teacher at the New Royal High School in Athens and, on 15 May, became a building inspector for King Otto I. He returned to Germany in 1838 and travelled extensively there. In 1847, he was appointed to succeed

August von Voit Richard Jakob August von Voit (17 February 1801 in Wassertrüdingen – 12 December 1870 in Munich) was a German architect specializing in glass and iron structures. Notable projects Voit designed the city hall of Annweiler am Trifels (Rhinela ...

as Professor of Architecture at the

Academy of Fine Arts Munich The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (german: Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, also known as Munich Academy) is one of the oldest and most significant art academies in Germany. It is located in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich, in Bavaria, ...

. He is best known for a large series of lithographs (produced in conjunction with his brothers Georg, Gustav and

Julius The gens Julia (''gēns Iūlia'', ) was one of the most prominent patrician families in ancient Rome. Members of the gens attained the highest dignities of the state in the earliest times of the Republic. The first of the family to obtain the ...

) depicting examples of

Gothic architecture Gothic architecture (or pointed architecture) is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas. It e ...

in the

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; and (with Ernst Rauch) steel engraved views of prominent German cities. From 1846 to 1855, he published his designs as ''Works of Higher Architecture''; encompassing three volumes. The Royal Villa in

Berchtesgaden Berchtesgaden () is a municipality in the district Berchtesgadener Land, Bavaria, in southeastern Germany, near the border with Austria, south of Salzburg and southeast of Munich. It lies in the Berchtesgaden Alps, south of Berchtesgaden; the ...

and the

Museum der bildenden Künste The Museum der bildenden Künste (German: "Museum of Fine Arts") is a museum in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. It covers artworks from the Late Middle Ages to Modernity. History Museum Foundation and First Museum The museum dates back to the fo ...

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

(1856–1857) were built from his designs. He also submitted a draft for a new parliamentary building for the Netherlands, but his draft was rejected. His style was a mixture of Classical and

Italian Renaissance The Italian Renaissance ( it, Rinascimento ) was a period in Italian history covering the 15th and 16th centuries. The period is known for the initial development of the broader Renaissance culture that spread across Europe and marked the trans ...

elements.

Selected designs

*1850–1853: Royal Villa in Berchtesgaden, summer home for King Maximilian II of Bavaria *1852: Orthodox Church in Moscow *1854: Bourse in

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...

, Norway *1856: Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig (destroyed in 1943) *1857: Protestant Kirche in

Hallstadt Hallstadt is a town in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg on the left bank of the Main, 4 km north of Bamberg. Geography Hallstadt borders in the south on the city of Bamberg and in the west on the Main. There are two constituent co ...

*1860:

National Archaeological Museum, Athens The National Archaeological Museum ( el, Εθνικό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο) in Athens houses some of the most important artifacts from a variety of archaeological locations around Greece from prehistory to late antiquity. It i ...

(Built: 1866–1891. The façade was designed by

Ernst Ziller Ernst Moritz Theodor Ziller ( el, Ερνέστος Τσίλλερ, ''Ernestos Tsiller''; 22 June 1837 – 4 November 1923) was a German-born university teacher and architect who later became a Greece, Greek national. In the late 19th and earl ...

)Nationales Archäologisches Museum
(griechisch) *1860: Villa Feodora for

Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (2 April 1826 – 25 June 1914), was the penultimate Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, reigning from 1866 to 1914. For his support for his successful court theatre he was also known as the ''Theaterherzog'' (theatre duk ...

in Bad Liebenstein

Books

*''Originalansichten der historisch merkwürdigsten Städte in Deutschland, ihrer Dome, Kirchen und sonstigen Baudenkmale'' (Original Views of the most remarkable historic cities in Germany, their Cathedrals, Churches and other monuments), 6 Vols., Darmstadt 1832–1867. *''Reiseberichte aus Griechenland'' (Travelogues from Greece), Darmstadt 1835. *''Malerische Ansichten der merkwürdigsten und schönsten Kathedralen, Kirchen und Monumente der gothischen Baukunst am Rhein, Main und der Lahn'' (Picturesque views of the strangest and most beautiful cathedrals, churches and monuments of Gothic architecture on the Rhine, Main and Lahn), Frankfurt 1843. *''Werke der höheren Baukunst'' (Works of Higher Architecture), 3 Vols., Darmstadt 1846–1855. *''Die griechischen Landschaftsgemälde von Karl Rottmann in der neuen königlichen Pinakothek zu München'' (Greek landscape painting by Karl Rottmann in the new Royal Pinakothek at Munich), Munich 1854. *''Das Königreich Sachsen, Thüringen und Anhalt in malerischen Original-Ansichten'' ( The Kingdom of Saxony, Thuringia and Anhalt in picturesque original views), 2 Vols., Darmstadt 1857.

Life

Selected designs

Books

References

Further reading