
Friedrich von Gärtner (10 December 1791 in
Koblenz
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Koblenz was established as a Roman Empire, Roman military p ...
– 21 April 1847 in
Munich
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) was a
German architect.
Biography
His father was also an architect, and moved in 1804 to Munich, where young Gärtner received his first education in architecture. To complete that education, he went in 1812 to
Paris
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, where he studied under
Percier, and in 1814 to
Italy
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, where he spent four years in the earnest study of antiquities. The fruits of this labor appeared in 1819 in some views accompanied by descriptions of the principal monuments of
Sicily
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(''Ansichten der am meisten erhaltenen Monumente Siciliens'').
After a visit to
England
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, Gärtner was appointed, in 1820, professor of architecture in the
Academy of Munich. His work as a practical architect began with this appointment. In 1822 Friedrich von Gärtner was appointed artistic director of the
Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory. Gärtner eventually became head government surveyor of buildings and from 1842 director of the
Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
He is buried in the
Alter Südfriedhof in Munich. His son
Friedrich Gärtner was a noted architectural painter.
Work
Gärtner and
Leo von Klenze
Leo von Klenze (born Franz Karl Leopold von Klenze; 29 February 1784 – 26 January 1864) was a German architect and painter. He was the court architect of Ludwig I of Bavaria.
Von Klenze was a devotee of Neoclassicism and one of the mo ...
are the most well known architects of
Bavaria
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during the reign of
Ludwig I. His architecture was generally in the
Romanesque style and much to the king's taste.
Gärtner's ''
Ludwigskirche'' in the
Ludwigstrasse in Munich strongly influenced other church architecture, especially in North America.
Main projects
*In
Munich
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**
Feldherrnhalle
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,
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Siegestor
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University building
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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Wittelsbacher Palais (destroyed).
*
Pompejanum in
Aschaffenburg
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Aschaffenburg belonged to the Archbishopric ...
* Kursaal and Arcades in
Bad Kissingen
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* He began the
Befreiungshalle in
Kelheim
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His ...
that was redesigned by the architect
Leo von Klenze
Leo von Klenze (born Franz Karl Leopold von Klenze; 29 February 1784 – 26 January 1864) was a German architect and painter. He was the court architect of Ludwig I of Bavaria.
Von Klenze was a devotee of Neoclassicism and one of the mo ...
and built accordingly.
*
Old Royal Palace
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in
Athens
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, a building now used as the
Hellenic Parliament
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19th-century German architects
Architects of the Bavarian court
German neoclassical architects
1791 births
1847 deaths
Academic staff of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
Burials at the Alter Südfriedhof
People from Koblenz
Architects from Munich