Friedrich von GärtnerGerman architect

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  • contribution to Classicism ( in Western architecture: Germany and Austria )

    ...increasingly turgid neo-Renaissance manner, as in the Reichstag Building (1884–94). In the mid-19th century Munich was transformed for King Ludwig I of Bavaria by architects Leo von Klenze and Friedrich von Gärtner into a major cultural capital. Their twin models were Periclean Athens and Renaissance Florence, the former providing the inspiration for Klenze’s Greek Doric Ruhmeshalle...

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