August Sicard von Sicardsburg (6 December 1813 – 11 June 1868) was an Austrian architect. He is best remembered as the co-architect of the

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, together with Eduard van der Nüll. Sicardsburg was born in

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. He studied architecture at the

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under

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, and together with van der Nüll. In 1843 he became professor at the

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. Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer was one of his students. Sicardsburg died in 1868 in Weidling, Austria, of tuberculosis, six weeks after his partner Eduard van der Nüll committed suicide; neither saw the opening of the Vienna State Opera in 1869.

List of works

Along with Eduard van der Nüll

* Schutzengelbrunnen (fountain), 1843–1846 * Sofiensaal, 1845 * Carltheater, 1846–1847 *

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1849–1855 *

, 1861–1869 * Haas-Haus, 1866–1868 (now site of the unrelated Haas-Haus) * Palais Larisch-Mönich, 1867–1868 * Industriepalast on the occasion of the World Exposition of 1873.

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People from Buda 1813 births 1868 deaths 19th-century Austrian architects 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in Austria Historicist architects Academics of TU Wien Academics of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna {{Austria-architect-stub