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Portrait bust of Kayser by Victor Tilgner. Carl Gangolf Kayser (or Carl Gangolph Kaiser; born 12 February 1837, in Vienna; died 2 September 1895) was an Austrian architect at the service of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico, during the Second Mexican Empire. In the later part of his life he returned to Austria and worked on restoring medieval castles.
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Chapultepec Castle ( Spanish: Castillo de Chapultepec) is located on top of Chapultepec Hill in Mexico City's Chapultepec park. The name Chapultepec is the Nahuatl word chapoltepēc which means "on the hill of the grasshopper". It is located at the entrance to Chapultepec park, at a height of 2,325 metres (7,628 ft) above sea level. [1]
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The Emperor hired Austrian, French, Belgian, and Mexican architects: Julius Hofmann (1840--1896), Carl Gangolf Kayser (1837--1895), Carlos Schaffer, Eleuterio Méndez and Ramón Cruz Arango, to redesign the castle in Neoclassical (Neo-Gothic and Neo-romanticism) style (Kayser and Hofmann built also Neuschwanstein Castle for the Maximilian’s ...
Preview Picture Data Info; General view 1808 and after 1873 Photo Liechtenstein Castle, near Mödling
Biography of KAYSER, Carl Gangolf (b. 1837, Wien, d. 1895, Wien) in the Web Gallery of Art, a searchable image collection and database of European painting, sculpture and architecture (200-1900)
KAYSER, Carl Gangolf. Austrian architect (b. 1837, Wien, d. 1895, Wien) Preview. Picture Data. File Info. Comment. General view 1808 and after 1873 Photo Liechtenstein Castle, near Mödling. 1300*1083 True Color 242 Kb.
