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Fischer von Erlach

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Fischer von Erlach (German) [ˈfɪʃər fɔn ˈerlax]
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(Biographies / Fischer von Erlach, Johann Bernhard (1656-1723) M, Austrian, ARCHITECTURE: architect) Johann Bernhard (joˈhan ˈbernhart). 1656-1723, Austrian architect: a leading exponent of the German baroque


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Though Hawksmoor left no body of theory to explain works such as St George's, Bloomsbury, and St Mary Woolnoth, Hart describes his intellectual interests and theoretical sources, drawing especially on his letters and on his library with its books on logic, law, metaphysics, natural history, and mathematics, its works by Fischer von Erlach and Descartes, its exotic travel literature, and its engravings of Baroque Rome by Falda, de Rossi, and Fontana.
The Fischer von Erlach Wing, which fronts the whole complex, has been thoroughly renovated and dubbed "Quartier 21.
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach is a key figure of the Austrian Baroque.
 
 
 
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