Gottlieb Nigelli

Gottlieb Nigelli (* 1746 in Vienna ; † 1812 there ) was an Austrian architect of classicism in Vienna.

Life

Nigelli comes from an Italian family of plasterers . After an apprenticeship as a bricklayer, he studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , with Jean-François Chalgrin in Paris and on the recommendation of the court chancellor Wenzel Anton Kaunitz with an imperial scholarship in Rome . Nigelli spent several years there. Then got a job as an engineer at the court building authority in Vienna.

His most important work is the Reformed City Church in Vienna (1783–1784). Not far from there and at the same time, the Palais Pallavicini was built according to plans by Nigelli's superior Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg . After a dispute between both of them about the artistic value of their respective buildings, Nigelli was transferred to Brno as a punishment, but was recalled to Vienna in 1793 and appointed court architect in 1797 . Further conflicts with his superiors led Nigelli to resign from court service in 1801. A former suburban house of Nigellis in Vienna-Neubau (1803-1804), today part of the monastery of the Daughters of the Divine Savior , is still preserved .

Preserved structures

Interior of the Reformed City Church, Dorotheergasse 16, Vienna (built 1783–1784)
Rectory of the Reformed City Church, Dorotheergasse 16, Vienna (built 1783–1784)
Vorstadthaus, Kaiserstraße 31, Vienna (built 1803–1804)

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Nigelli, Gottlieb . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 20th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1869, pp. 351–353 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Gottlieb Nigelli - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Gottlieb Nigelli. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.

Individual evidence

^ Martha Grüll: The reformed town church in Dorotheergasse . In: Peter Karner (Hrsg.): The evangelical community HB in Vienna . Deuticke, Vienna 1986, p. 107.

personal data
SURNAME	Nigelli, Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian architect of classicism
DATE OF BIRTH	1746
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	1812
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Martha Grüll: The reformed town church in Dorotheergasse . In: Peter Karner (Hrsg.): The evangelical community HB in Vienna . Deuticke, Vienna 1986, p. 107.