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    Gottfried Semper (German: [ˈɡɔtfʁiːt ˈzɛmpɐ]; 29 November 1803 – 15 May 1879) was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture who designed...
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    built by the architect Gottfried Semper in 1841. After a devastating fire in 1869, the opera house was rebuilt, partly again by Semper, and completed in 1878...
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    located in Dresden, in the Saxony region of Germany. Designed by Gottfried Semper and built from 1838 to 1840 in the Romanesque Revival and Moorish Revival...
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  • The Four Elements of Architecture is a book by the German architect Gottfried Semper. Published in 1851, it is an attempt to explain the origins of architecture...
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  • Look up semper or semper- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Semper may refer to: Semper caveo (Latin: Always beware), a motto of the polygraph testers...
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    The Semper Gallery or Semper Building (German: Sempergalerie or Semperbau) in Dresden, Germany, was designed by the architect Gottfried Semper and constructed...
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    buildings were constructed between 1871 and 1891 according to plans by Gottfried Semper and Baron Karl von Hasenauer. The emperor commissioned the two Ringstraße...
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    1857 as a collaboration between the eminent historicist architects Gottfried Semper, Friedrich August Stüler, Georg Adolf Demmler, and Ernst Friedrich...
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    Heinrich Ferstel competed presenting their drafts, superseded by Gottfried Semper in 1869. Semper designed a wide-scale 'general plan', extending from the Leopold...
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    It was only over a century later that the architect Gottfried Semper completed it with the Semper Gallery towards the Elbe. The Sempergalerie, opened...
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  • Neo-Renaissance architectural style developed in Dresden, Germany, primarily by Gottfried Semper and Hermann Nicolai. The style is associated with European architects...
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    adapted the design of the Festspielhaus from an unrealised project by Gottfried Semper for an opera house in Munich without his permission[citation needed]...
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    Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Otto Dix, Oskar Kokoschka, Richard Strauss, Gottfried Semper and Gret Palucca, were also active in the city. Dresden is also home...
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    Dumas, Kapstadt/Amsterdam The prize for architecture is named after Gottfried Semper and has been awarded biennially, endowed with 25,000 euro. 2007: Erich...
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    royal seat of the Kingdom of Saxony from 1841 and 1869, designed by Gottfried Semper. It was the predecessor of today's Semperoper, and is therefore sometimes...
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    Szczecin (Stettiner Straße) and Kaliningrad (Königsberger Straße). Gottfried Semper (1803–1879), architect, volunteer at the port construction. Johanna...
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    Lafayette College in Pennsylvania. In Style in the technical arts, Gottfried Semper looks at the textile with great promise and historical precedent.[clarification...
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    much older Stallburg) of Fischer von Erlach. The project was led by Gottfried Semper and later by Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer. The museums were completed...
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    Dresden, including the composer Ferdinand Hiller and the architect Gottfried Semper. Wagner's involvement in left-wing politics abruptly ended his welcome...
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    Carl Gottfried Semper (July 6, 1832, Altona, Duchy of Holstein – May 29, 1893, Würzburg) was a German ethnologist and animal ecologist. His brother Georg...
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    on the broad theory of style including Carl Friedrich von Rumohr, Gottfried Semper, and Alois Riegl in his Stilfragen of 1893, with Heinrich Wölfflin...
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    circuses, dams, domes, harbours, temples, and theatres. According to Gottfried Semper, Roman architecture was "the idea of world domination expressed in...
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    Lorch. It was built on the same location as the Semper Synagogue (1839–1840) designed by Gottfried Semper, which was destroyed in 1938, during the Kristallnacht...
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    Emperor Franz Joseph I (1830–1916) and designed by the architects Gottfried Semper (1803–1879) and Carl Hasenauer (1833–1894). The two museums have identical...
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    which the concerts of the Musikkollegium take place, was built by Gottfried Semper. Musikfestwochen, in late August and early September, sees Winterthur's...
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  • September 16 – Josep Maria Jujol, Catalan architect (died 1949) May 15 – Gottfried Semper, German architect (born 1803) September 17 – Eugène Viollet-le-Duc...
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    1879) November 29 Christian Doppler, Austrian mathematician (d. 1853) Gottfried Semper, German architect (d. 1879) December 5 – Fyodor Tyutchev, great Russian...
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  • English railway civil and mechanical engineer (died 1859) November 29 – Gottfried Semper, German architect, art critic and professor of architecture (died 1879)...
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    was renamed South Kensington Museum. In 1855 the German architect Gottfried Semper, at the request of Cole, produced a design for the museum, but it was...
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  • young French architect Jules Goury [fr] (1803–1834), who was assisting Gottfried Semper (1803–1879) with his radical studies of the polychromy of Ancient Greek...
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