Louis Montoyer

Louis Joseph Montoyer (* around 1749 in Mariemont , Austrian Netherlands , † June 5, 1811 in Vienna ) was an architect who had his main workplaces in Habsburg Brussels and Vienna.

Orangery of the Schlossgarten Seneffe

Life

Louis Montoyer worked as an architect in Brussels from 1778 , where he built, among other things, the Royal Palace, the then seat of the Habsburg governor. In 1795 he came to Vienna with Duke Albert von Sachsen-Teschen , who had appointed him court architect in 1780. Here he first worked on the renovation of his palace, today's Albertina . At the Hofburg he established the connection between the Leopoldine wing and the old Hofburg with the construction of the ceremonial hall . Louis Montoyer built the Rasumofsky Palace for the then Russian ambassador, Prince Andreas Rasumofsky . In 1807 the architect was finally appointed court architect by Emperor Franz I. Louis Montoyer was buried in the Sankt Marxer Friedhof , where a memorial stone commemorates him.

Buildings in Belgium

• Orangery of the Schlossgarten Seneffe
• Royal Park Theater

Buildings in Austria

• Ceremonial hall of the Hofburg , 1801–1802
• Reconstruction of the Archduke Albrecht Palace ("Albertina"), 1801–1804
• Reconstruction of the Hofburg chapel , 1802
• Extension of the Churhaus, 1806
• Redesign of the Maltese Church , 1806–1808
• Rasumofsky Palace , 1806–1807
• Redoute Baden , 1801 (demolished in 1908)

Honors

The architect was made an honorary citizen of Vienna on September 25, 1805 .

Web links

Commons : Louis Montoyer  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Entry on Louis Montoyer in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Louis Montoyer. District Museum Landstrasse, archived from the original on December 5, 2013 ; accessed on January 5, 2018 . 
• Louis Montoyer. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.