!!!Canevale, Isidore

Canevale, Isidore, b. Vincennes (France), 1730, d. Vienna, 
Nov. 2, 1786, architect. Became court architect in 1776 under 
Emperor Joseph II, for whom he renovated the General Hospital and 
built the Narrenturm tower, the Josephsstoeckl (Kaiser Joseph 
Pavilion) in the Augarten park (1780-1783), the Josephinum (military 
surgical institute), and the Lusthaus in the Prater park. He also 
worked for Cardinal C. A.  Migazzi (triumphal arch at Vák, 
Hungary), the Schoenborn family (summer palace in Laudongasse in 
Vienna) and the Liechtenstein family in Moravia and Silesia. Main 
exponent of neo-classicism.

!Literature
R. Wagner-Rieger, Vom Klassizismus bis zur Secession, in: 
Geschichte der Stadt Wien, Neue Reihe, Vol. VII/3, 1973.


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