!!!Förster, Ludwig Christian Friedrich

b. Ansbach (Germany), Oct. 8, 1797, 
d. Bad Gleichenberg (Styria), June 16, 1863, architect and 
entrepreneur, father of the architects Heinrich and Emil von  
Foerster, central personage of Austrian historicism. Studied in Munich 
and Vienna, where he worked as a corrector from 1820-1826 and as a 
teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1842-1845. From 1861-1863 
municipal councillor and from 1828 head of a lithographic institute. 
Later started a zinc foundry and founded a newspaper, the "Allgemeine 
Bauzeitung" in 1836, which for several decades was the most important 
medium for publication in the field of architecture throughout the 
monarchy. From 1839/40 worked as a free-lance architect. Among those 
who worked in his atelier was O.  Wagner. From 1846-1852 F. cooperated 
with his son-in-law, Baron T. von  Hansen. F. actively supported young 
artists and strongly promoted technological innovations in Vienna. 
From 1836 focused on urban development projects and played an 
important role in planning the Vienna Ringstrasse. Apart from 
residential buildings and office buildings, a number of other 
projects, including the synagogues in Wien-Leopoldstadt (1858, 
destroyed in 1938), Budapest (1859) and Miskolc (1863) merit 
attention.

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Further projects: Vienna: Evang. Church Gumpendorf (1849), cooperation 
in the Arsenal project, Elisabethbruecke, a bridge (1854, pulled down 
in 1897), Todesco Palace (1863). - Villa Pereira, Koenigstetten 
(1849); Augarten casino, Brno (1855).



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