!!!Roesner, Carl

Roesner, Carl, b. Vienna, June 19, 1804, 
d. Steyr (Upper Austria), July 13, 1869, architect. Studied in Vienna 
and Rome; from 1826 at the Vienna Academy first as a corrector, then 
from 1835, as a professor; deputy editor of the "Allgemeine 
Bauzeitung". One of the group around C. M.  Hofbauer concentrated 
particularly on sacred art. of great importance to the romantic idea 
of the total work of art ("Gesamtkunstwerk") and to Viennese 
architecture. Most important buildings mainly outside Austria.

!Works
Vienna: Erloeserkirche (formerly Redemptoristinnenkirche), 
1836; Meidlinger Pfarrkirche 1845; Joh.-v.-Nepomuk-Kirche, 1846; 
Arsenalkirche 1856; Hietzinger Pfarrkirche (structural alterations), 
1864. - Slawenapostelkirche Prague, 1863 (with I. Ullmann); 
St.-Josephs-Kirche, Kalocsa (Hungary), 1859; Dom Diakovár, 
Djakovo (Croatia), 1866.

!Literature
OeBL.



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