Ludwig Fontana

Ludwig Fontana , born Luigi Fontana , ( Russian Людвиг Францевич Фонтана ; * 1824 in Castel San Pietro ; † 1894 ibid) was a Russian architect from Switzerland .

Life

Fontana studied in Pavia . In 1845 he came to St. Petersburg and became a sculptor's apprentice to Harald Julius von Bosse . In 1851 Fontana was recognized as an artist by the Academy of Arts .

Maly Teatr, St. Petersburg

Fontana went into business for herself in 1860. Fontana built a number of tenement houses with impressive facades (1860–1863). He designed important buildings in the center of St. Petersburg. 1869-1870 he built the building of the All-Russian Manufactory Exhibition in Soljanoi Gorodok on the Fontanka . 1873-1875 he rebuilt the Grand Hotel Europe in the style of eclecticism . Fontana built a villa (1872–1873) on the Angliskaya Nabereschna and a dacha on the Sverdlovskaya Naberezhna for Pyotr Pavlovich Durnowo . In 1875 he became a member of the Academy of Arts with the title of Academic . He was the architect of the Imperial Court and the Ministry of Finance. 1876–1878 he built the Maly Teatr on the Fontanka by order of Count Anton Stepanowitsch Apraxins , which was converted by AK Hammerstedt to the Bolshoi Dramatitscheski Teatr in 1900–1902 (now Georgi Alexandrowitsch Towstonogows Theater). For Count Apraxin Fontana built the Resurrection Church in the Russian style (1883-1884, not preserved) and a number of buildings on his courtyard.

Finally Fontana returned to his home town of Castel San Pietro, built several villas and designed the municipal cemetery where he was buried.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Saint Petersburg Encyclopaedia: Fontana LF (1824–1894), architect (accessed December 6, 2019).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Невский проспект и архитекторы из Швейцарии (accessed December 8, 2019).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Борис Алмазов: Повести каменных горожан. Очерки о декоративной скульптуре Санкт-Петербурга . Litres, 2017.