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August Sicard von Sicardsburg; August Siccard von Sicardsburg; lifetime > * December 6, 1813 in Buda † June 11, 1868 in Weidling. info >
The building was the first major building on the Wiener Ringstraße commissioned by the controversial Viennese "city expansion fund". Work on the building commenced in 1861 and was completed in 1869, following plans drawn up by architects August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll. It was built in the Neo-Renaissance style.
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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. They were appointed Professors at the Akademie in Vienna (1844), and thus influenced later Viennese architects. With van der Nüll he designed several ...
A native of Vienna, Karl von Hasenauer was a pupil of the architects August Sicard von Sicardsburg (1813–1868) and Eduard van der Nüll (1812–1868), the designers of the Vienna Opera on the Ringstrasse. Nobilitated in 1873, he collaborated with Gottfried Semper on the design and construction of the Burgtheater, the Neue Burg and the Court Museums. Their professional
In the 1980s, however, the slow removal of grime revealed a stunning honey-colored exterior to this magnificent concert hall built by August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll—and made famous by Gustav Mahler and, later, the conductor Herbert von Karajan.
The area was split into sectors where construction was supervised by the architects Carl Roesner, Antonius Pius de Riegel, August Sicard von Sicardsburg, Eduard van der Nüll, Theophil von Hansen and Ludwig Förster. The master builder was Leopold Mayr. The Heeresgeschichtliches Museum took until 1891 to finish. In the aftermath there were ...
