Kunstakademie München, Paris, Bremerhaven, Paris (begeisterte sich dort für die Juli-Revolution); 1830–1833 Reisen durch Südfrankreich, Italien und Griechenland zum Studium antiker Bauten; 1834–1849 Vorsteher der Bauschule der Dresdner Kunstakademie; der Bau ...
He taught (1834–49) architecture at the Dresden Academy and became (1855) director of the architectural section of the Polytechnische Schule, Zürich. Like most of his 19th-century contemporaries, he designed in a variety of revivalist modes, mainly Renaissance-Baroque. His works include the ...
Gottfried Semper was an architect and writer on art who was among the principal practitioners of the Neo-Renaissance style in Germany and Austria. Semper studied in Munich and Paris and from 1826 to 1830 travelled in Italy and Greece, studying classical
Southwest facade of the main building of the central campus, Eidgenössiche Technische Hochschule (ETH; Federal Polytechnical School), in Zurich, Switz., designed by Gottfried Semper, constructed 1861–64. Gottfried Semper(born Nov. 29, 1803, Hamburg—died May 15, 1879, Rome) was an architect...