Otto Brückwald (6 May 1841 - 15 February 1917) was a German architect.

Life and work

Paul Otto Brückwald was born in

Leipzig Leipzig (, ; ; Upper Saxon: ; ) is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, eighth-largest city in Ge ...

, the youngest of the four children of Carl Friedrich Brückwald and his wife Emilie Pauline, née Cagiorgi. In 1857 Otto Brückwald was apprenticed to a bricklayer and due to a scholarship, he was able attend an academy. From 1860 until 1863 he attended the Royal Academy in

Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

. In 1868 he joined the Masonic Lodge "Minerva zu den drei Palmen" in Leipzig. The most important buildings, with whose construction he was involved, include the "Neues Theater" in Leipzig (1864-1868), which was designed by

Carl Ferdinand Langhans Carl Ferdinand Langhans (14 January 1782 – 22 November 1869) was a Prussian architect whose specialty was designing theaters. Born in Breslau, Silesia, Langhans was the son of the architect Carl Gotthard Langhans. Langhans' designs inclu ...

and destroyed during World War II, for which he undertook the detailed planning and the construction site management. Furthermore, he was responsible for the "Hoftheater" in

Altenburg Altenburg () is a city in Thuringia, Germany, located south of Leipzig, west of Dresden and east of Erfurt. It is the capital of the Altenburger Land district and part of a polycentric old-industrial textile and metal production region betw ...

(1869–1871) and the

Bayreuth Festspielhaus The ''Bayreuth Festspielhaus'' or Bayreuth Festival Theatre (, ) is an opera house north of Bayreuth, Germany, built by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner and dedicated solely to the performance of his stage works. It is the venue ...

(1872–1876). He also constructed various buildings in Leipzig. Otto Brückwald died aged 75 on 15 February 1917, in Leipzig.

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1841 births 1917 deaths Architects from Leipzig People from the Kingdom of Saxony 19th-century German architects German Freemasons {{Germany-architect-stub