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Architect. Known for. Vienna State Opera. August Sicard von Sicardsburg (6 December 1813 – 11 June 1868) [1] was an Austrian architect. He is best remembered as the co-architect of the Vienna State Opera, together with Eduard van der Nüll . Sicardsburg was born in Buda. He studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology under ...
The site for the new opera house on the Ring was chosen by Emperor Franz Joseph, who also footed the building costs from his privy purse. After numerous plans had been submitted in a public competition held in 1861, the choice fell on the architects August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll. Even before it was completed, the new opera house was the object of
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The structure of the opera house was planned by the Viennese architect August Sicard von Sicardsburg, while the inside was designed by interior decorator Eduard van der Nüll.
August Sicard von Sicardsburg (6 December 1813 – 11 June 1868) was an Austrian architect. He is best remembered as the co-architect of the Vienna State Opera, together with Eduard van der Nüll. Sicardsburg was born in Buda. He studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology under Peter von Nobile, and
views 3,683,794 updated. Siccard von Siccardsburg, August (1813–68). Austrian architect. He studied in Vienna, where he met Eduard van der Nüll, with whom he later travelled to Italy, France, Germany, and England.
As the first public building constructed on the Ringstrasse, the Vienna State Opera House had the important role of setting the stage for future building projects on the Ring. For such a significant project, architects Eduard van der Null and August Sicard von Sicardsburg were chosen to complete the task.
On the left is the Carltheater on Jägerzeile, today the Praterstrasse. In 1838 the former Leopoldstädter Theater was acquired by Carl Carl, who ran it in parallel to the Theater an der Wien. In 1845 he commissioned the architects August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll, who would go on to design the Vienna Court Opera on the Ring, to remodel it. In 1847 it opened
