Friedrich von Gärtner (10 December 1791 in Koblenz – 21 April 1847 in

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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

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, where he studied under Percier, and in 1814 to

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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

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(''Ansichten der am meisten erhaltenen Monumente Siciliens''). After a visit to

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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

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in Munich. He is buried in the Alter Südfriedhof in Munich. His son Friedrich Gärtner was a noted architectural painter.

Work

Gärtner and

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are the most well known architects of

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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 ''

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'' in the Ludwigstrasse in Munich strongly influenced other church architecture, especially in North America.

Main projects

*In

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** University building ** Bayerische Staatsbibliothek **

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(destroyed). *

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* Kursaal and Arcades in

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* He began the Befreiungshalle in

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that was redesigned by the architect

and built accordingly. *

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, a building now used as the Hellenic Parliament

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gartner, Friedrich von 19th-century German architects Architects of the Bavarian court German neoclassical architects 1791 births 1847 deaths Academy of Fine Arts, Munich faculty Burials at the Alter Südfriedhof People from Koblenz Architects from Munich