!!!Ferstel, Heinrich Freiherr von

b. Vienna, July 7, 1828, 
d. Vienna, July 14, 1883, architect. After studies in Vienna F. worked 
in the atelier of his uncle F. Stache (1814-1895) from 1851-1853. In 
1855 he successfully competed for the construction of the  Votivkirche 
in Vienna, completed in 1879, which made him one of the most 
distinguished architects of the "Ringstrasse" period. From then on he 
launched several important projects and was supported by his 
brother-in-law, K. Koechlin (1828-1894) from 1856. his early buildings 
were dominated by elements of late romanticism (bank building, Vienna 
Stock Exchange, Vienna 1860), his later works mostly by the ideals of 
historicism and elements of the neo-Renaissance period. >From 1866 he 
was a professor at the Polytechnikum, today's Vienna University of 
Technology. Apart from various monumental buildings (in Vienna: 
Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, 1871; Chemical Department of 
Vienna University, 1872; School of Arts and Crafts, 1877; Vienna 
University, 1884; Lloyd building in Trieste, 1883) he created 
especially villas (Villa Wartholz, Reichenau 1872), residential 
buildings and palaces (Palais Wertheim, 1868; Palais Archduke Ludwig 
Viktor, 1869; both situated in Vienna). As a representative of 
Viennese architecture F. served as a model for other architects. The 
artistic effect of his works was felt throughout the Austro-Hungarian 
Monarchy.

!Literature
N. Wibiral, H. v. F. und der Historismus in der Baukunst 
des 19. Jh., doctoral thesis, Vienna 1952; N, Wibiral and R. Mikula, 
H. v. F., 1974.



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