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    Freiherr Heinrich von Ferstel (7 July 1828 – 14 July 1883) was an Austrian architect and professor, who played a vital role in building late 19th-century...
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    and Stockmarket Building, today called the Palais Ferstel after its architect Heinrich von Ferstel. The café was opened in 1876, and in the late 19th...
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    designed by Heinrich Ferstel and built in 1873. Duke Rudolph IV established the University of Vienna March 12, 1365. Heinrich von Ferstel designed the...
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    situation, this plan had to be downsized. The jury choose the project of Heinrich von Ferstel (1828–1883), who, at the time, was only 26. He chose to build the...
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    renowned architects like Carl von Hasenauer, Theophil Hansen and Heinrich Ferstel competed presenting their drafts, superseded by Gottfried Semper in...
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    1875 by a garden palace for the prince's widow Franziska built by Heinrich Ferstel. This building later served as a residence for other family members...
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    the street to a new building complex designed in 1855 by architect Heinrich Ferstel, himself the son of a Nationalbank official,: 18  with ornate decoration...
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    office of the Austro-Hungarian Bank. It was constructed by Baron Heinrich von Ferstel. The design of the building is reminiscent of early Florentine Renaissance...
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  • 1 May 1865, after seven years). Architects of the period included Heinrich Ferstel (Votivkirche, Museum für angewandte Kunst Wien), Friedrich von Schmidt...
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    Instead he concentrated on building up his own art collection and had Heinrich von Ferstel design and build a city palace on the new Schwarzenbergplatz in Vienna...
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    Between 1883 and 1889, the high altar was built after sketches of Heinrich Ferstel, with Innsbruck glass mosaics by Michael Rieser. Julius Schmid (Austrian...
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    several times in the 19th century, including between 1881 and 1882 by Heinrich Ferstel), the only Luther Monument in present-day Poland, unveiled in 1900...
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    church was radically reconstructed into the Gothic Revival style led by Heinrich Ferstel. The outside additional buildings and their remnants were removed because...
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  • Vienna – Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, 1713 Votivkirche, Vienna – Heinrich Ferstel, 1854 (75 international participants) Austrian Postal Savings Bank...
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    Protestant Church in Brno, Czech Republic. It was designed by architect Heinrich von Ferstel and built up between 1863 and 1867. Nowadays it is used by the Evangelical...
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    urban fringes. At the same time, several leading architects such as Heinrich von Ferstel, brought the new design back to the country. Villas and hotels were...
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    neo-gothic style (a reference to the gothic Cathedrals of France) by Heinrich Freiherr von Ferstel Wiener Börse (Vienna Stock Exchange) Urania observatory Österreichische...
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    paintings by Julius Schmid, and a new high altar, built from sketches by Heinrich von Ferstel, with a mosaic by Michael Rieser. In the court, there is a Schwarze...
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    dramaturge, director of the Burgtheater (Imperial Court Theatre) Max von Ferstel (1859–1936), architect Max Kurzweil (1867–1916), artist Maximilian Liebenwein...
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    century. He was educated and influenced by Rudolf von Eitelberger and Heinrich von Ferstel, and on the recommendation of Eitelberger Sitte became the head of...
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    archduke had the palace extended according to plans designed by Heinrich von Ferstel and died here in 1919. His Habsburg heirs sold the palace to the...
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    Shortly before his death, he was planning, together with architect Heinrich von Ferstel, construction of a new university laboratory in Vienna. He is credited...
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    Technische Hochschule (today the Vienna University of Technology) under Heinrich von Ferstel where he graduated in 1883. Hönigsberg trained at the studios of...
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  • , is dedicated. The Votive Church, Vienna, Austria, designed by Heinrich von Ferstel, is dedicated. Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford, Connecticut...
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    erected near his favourite hunting grounds, according to plans by Heinrich von Ferstel. In 1889 Nathaniel Anselm von Rothschild followed with the building...
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    numerous bourgeois family homes as well as by notable architects like Heinrich von Ferstel to build larger mansions and hotels. The style was further popularized...
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    Layard (1868), Karl Richard Lepsius (1869), Melchior de Vogüé (1879), Heinrich Schliemann (1885), Rodolfo Lanciani (1900) and Sir Arthur Evans (1909)...
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    Medieval and Christian architecture, left vacant by the death of Heinrich von Ferstel, two years previously. From 1892 until his death, he was the head...
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    was originally intended for Vienna's Votive Church (Votivkirche). Heinrich von Ferstel, the builder of the Votivkirche, rejected the altar as it would have...
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    Freiherr von Ferstel [de] (1859, Vienna – 1936, Vienna), son of Heinrich von Ferstel, architect of the Vienna Votive Church. Max von Ferstel designed the...
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