!!!Hansen, Theophil Freiherr von

b. Copenhagen (Denmark), July 13, 1813, 
d. Vienna, Feb. 17, 1891, architect. While studying he was strongly 
influenced by C. F. Schinkel. Spent many years working in Athens, 
moved to Vienna in 1846, working first with L.  Foersters, later 
independently, to become one of the main advocates of late 
Romanticism. He preferred a Byzantine hybrid style (Military Museum in 
the Arsenal, 1856,  Museum of Military History). Around 1859 created 
the "Wiener Stil", a neo-Renaissance style with austere classical 
aspects, to which he later added monumental total work of art 
characteristics (building of the Gesellschaft der  Musikfreunde in 
Wien in Vienna, 1870). His buildings along the Ringstrasse, especially 
the  Parliament, 1874-1883, (in which he had intended to incorporate 
different colours) and the town palaces with their disciplined 
magnificence symbolise the climax of the austere architectural style 
during Viennese  Historicism and are a reminder of the leading role 
Austria played in the field of architecture. H. preferred to work with 
artists who adapted to his dictates of form (C.  Rahl, V.  Pilz). He 
had a number of great students (H. Auer, E. Ziller, G. Niemann, and 
even O.  Wagner worked with him). From 1868 at the Academy in Vienna, 
he emphasised classification according to style.

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Other works incl.: Vienna: Protestant church at Matzleinsdorf 
cemetery, 1858; Protestant School, 1859-1862; Heinrichhof, 1860-1862 
(destroyed 1945); Palais Erzherzog Wilhelm (Hoch- und 
Deutschmeisterpalais, now The OPEC Fund for International 
Development), 1864-1868; Palais Epstein, 1868-1872 (in co-operation 
with O. Wagner); Boerse (stock exchange), 1870-1877 (in co-operation 
with C. Tietz); Academy of Fine Arts, 1871-1876. - Lower Austria: 
Schloss Hernstein, 1856. - Athens: Zappeion, 1845; Academy of 
Sciences, 1856. - Collaboration in creating monuments (e.g. 
Schubert´s monument in Vienna, 1872).

!Literature
G. Niemann and F. v. Feldegg, T. H. und sein 
Werk, 1893; R. Wagner-Rieger and M. Reissberger, T. v. H. 
(Die Wr. Ringstrasse VIII, 4), 1980.



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