!!!Schmidt, Friedrich Freiherr von

b. Frickenhofen (Germany), Oct. 23, 1825, 
d. Vienna, Jan. 23, 1891. Architect. Studied architecture in Stuttgart 
and trained as a stonemason; award-winning design for Vienna's Votive 
Church, from 1857 in Milan, from 1859 taught at the Vienna Academy and 
1863 cathedral architect of St. Stephen´s in Vienna; 1866-1870 
member of the Vienna City Council, 1889 Member of the Upper Chamber of 
the Austrian Parliament. S. was central to the successful introduction 
of neo-Gothic brick construction in Austrian religious architecture; 
he also established the neo-Gothic style for secular buildings (Vienna 
City Hall, 1883); introduced the German Renaissance into Vienna's 
repertoire of styles (annex to the Oesterreichisch-Ungarische Bank, 
1875). Rejected pedantic use of historical architectural or decorative 
principles. As one of the principal masters of the "Ringstrasse era" 
S. enjoyed an international reputation and executed numerous works 
both in Austria and abroad. He repeatedly combined his architectural 
work, including the construction of palaces, with the restauration and 
preservation of monuments. S. was the spiritual father of an important 
school of architecture (G. von  Hauberrisser, V.  Luntz, F. von  
Neumann the Younger,  A.  Wielemans von Monteforte et al.).

!Further works
Vienna: Lazaristenkirche, 1862; Akademisches Gymnasium 
(school), 1863; church St. Othmar, 1863-1869; church Maria vom Siege, 
1875; Suehnhaus, 1886 (destroyed in 1945/51). - Fischhorn Castle, 
Salzburg, 1870; church St. Nikolaus, Innsbruck, 1874-1884. - 
Restaurations or conversions: Klosterneuburg Abbey, 1875ff.; Parish 
Church Jedenspeigen, 1886; castle in Waidhofen an der Ybbs, 1887ff. 
(all in Lower Austria); Burg Runkelstein castle (South Tyrol), 1888.

!Literature
E. Neumann, F. v. S., doctoral thesis, Vienna 1952; 
P. Haiko (Hg.), F. v. S. Ein gotischer Rationalist, exhibition 
catalogue, Vienna 1991; OeBL.



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