Ludwig Forster

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Ludwig von Förster lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1863
General construction newspaper by Ludwig Förster

Christian Friedrich Ludwig Ritter von Förster (born October 8, 1797 in Bayreuth , † June 16, 1863 in Bad Gleichenberg , Styria) was an Austrian architect of historicism .

Life

Ludwig Förster was the son of Christoph Förster, a forest inspector in the principalities of Ansbach and Bayreuth. He attended high school in Ansbach. In 1816 he studied for two years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In 1819 he can attend the architecture school of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna as a student of Peter von Nobile . This gave him employment as a corrector at the architecture school for six years .

In 1828 Förster founded a lithographic company . Furthermore, a zinc foundry was founded, and in 1836 the “ Allgemeine Bauzeitung ”. From 1839 he was a freelance architect, Otto Wagner among others worked in his studio . As a result, he began to develop numerous projects for an expansion of the city of Vienna and became an engine for this endeavor. In 1843 his teacher Peter von Nobile appointed him professor at the Academy of Fine Arts; he ended this activity in 1845.

From 1845 Förster was also active as an entrepreneur. He founded a zinc foundry in Berlin, opened a zinc mine in Bohemia and participated in the construction of railways and other construction companies.

From 1846 Förster worked as an architect together with his son-in-law Theophil von Hansen . In 1858 he worked intensively on the planning of the Vienna Ringstrasse . He took part in the planning competition, which he won ex equo with two other architects. In the course of the subsequent construction of the ring road zone , he designed numerous residential buildings as well as the Palais Todesco and the Palais Hoyos.

Förster was awarded the Order of the Iron Crown, third class, in recognition of his services in the building trade . In response to the conventional request associated with this order, on June 14, 1863, the elevation to the hereditary Austrian knighthood took place. Weakened by a lung disease, Ludwig Ritter von Förster died two days later, on June 16, 1863, at the age of 66.

His sons Heinrich Förster and Emil von Förster were also architects.

In 1886 the Förstergasse in Vienna- Leopoldstadt (2nd district) was named after him.

Buildings

Villa Barbara Countess von Abensberg and Traun , Baden near Vienna (1847)

literature

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Förster  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Kurt Mollik, Hermann Reining, Rudolf Wurzer: Planning and Realization of the Vienna Ring Road Zone . Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1980. ISBN 3-515-02481-6 . (Volume III by Renate Wagner-Rieger (ed.): The Vienna Ringstrasse. Picture of an Era. (Volume I - XI) . Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1972–1981. ISBN 978-3-515-02482-2 )
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume III, Volume 61 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lahn 1975, p. 317
  3. ^ Heinrich and Emil Ritter von Förster:  Christian Friedrich Ludwig Ritter von Förster. In:  Allgemeine Bauzeitung , year 1864, (XXIXth year), p. 1 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / abz.
  4. ^ Ludwig Förster:  A country house in Baden near Vienna (text). In:  Allgemeine Bauzeitung , year 1847, (XII. Year), p. 213 ff. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / abzand
    Ludwig Förster:  A country house in Baden near Vienna (plans). In:  Allgemeine Bauzeitung , year 1847, (XII. Year), pp. 115–118. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / abz.
  5. City of Vienna | Hotel National .

Remarks

  1. The building (which was demolished decades ago) was significantly changed in 1852 by master builder Wenzl Hutzek on behalf of the same builder and thus robbed of its original character. - In: Bettina Nezval: Villas from the Imperial Era. Summer residences in Baden. 2nd, expanded edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85028-476-9 , p. 115.