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Johann Conrad Schlaun

(1695–1773). German Baroque architect, most of whose works are in Westphalia. His earliest buildings were uncomplicated churches, but in 1719 he was appointed Land Surveyor of ...

Schlaun, Johann Conrad

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Michael Rohde

The Oxford Companion to the Garden

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..., Johann Conrad ( 1695–1773 ), German master of works. After training as engineer and architect he studied in Würzburg, Rome, and Paris. He served under Prince Elector and Archbishop Clemens August of Cologne, working 1720–1 with B. Neumann ( 1687–1753 ). From 1723 to 1735 he extended the palace and made new gardens in Nordkirchen (island garden with gloriette , orangery, pheasant house). Between 1725 and 1728 he rebuilt Schloss Augustusburg . From 1729 in Münster he worked on the fortifications, promenade, royal palace and garden, St Clemens...

Schlaun, Johann Conrad (Konrad)

Schlaun, Johann Conrad (Konrad) (1695–1773)   Reference library

Patrick Goode

The Oxford Companion to Architecture

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..., Johann Conrad (Konrad) ( 1695–1773 ) German architect and engineer . Although mainly working in the provincial obscurity of Münster, Schlaun designed a series of original buildings. He was particularly adept at integrating abstract geometrical forms with their surroundings. The hunting-lodge at Clemenswerth, near Sögel ( c .1736–50 ) is a small 2-storey building, set in the middle of a ring of 8 pavilions, each of which forms the terminus of an avenue. In his other designs, he was able, with great ingenuity, to insert his designs into rather...

Schlaun, Johann Conrad von

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The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture (4 ed.)

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..., Johann Conrad von ( 1695–1773 ) German Baroque architect , most of whose works are in Westphalia. His earliest buildings were uncomplicated churches, but he was appointed ( 1719 ) Land Surveyor of Münster by Clemens August (1700–61— Prince-Bishop of Paderborn and Münster from 1719 ), who encouraged him to travel, first to Würzburg where he gained further experience under Neumann ( 1720–1 ) before visiting Italy and France in order to broaden his architectural knowledge. He designed Schloss Brühl (1725–8—later much changed by Neumann, ...

Johann Conrad Schlaun

Johann Conrad Schlaun  

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(1695–1773).German Baroque architect, most of whose works are in Westphalia. His earliest buildings were uncomplicated churches, but in 1719 he was appointed Land Surveyor of Münster by Clemens ...
Wilhelm Ferdinand Lipper

Wilhelm Ferdinand Lipper  

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(d 1800).German architect and designer. He succeeded Johann Conrad Schlaun as architect of the castle (Rezidenzschloss) of the Prince–bishops in Münster and assumed responsibility for its interior ...
Augustusburg

Augustusburg  

Brühl, Germany, was the favourite residence of the Elector and Archbishop of Cologne Clemens August von Wittelsbach (1700–61). In 1725, Clemens August commissioned the Westphalian master builder ...
François de Cuvilliés

François de Cuvilliés  

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 (1695–1768) Walloon servant of the Elector Max Emmanuel of Bavaria, whose talent for decorative design emerged in the decade after his master’s return from exile in Paris in 1715.Back ...
Lipper, Wilhelm Ferdinand

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The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts

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...Wilhelm Ferdinand ( d 1800 ). German architect and designer . He succeeded Johann Conrad Schlaun as architect of the castle (Rezidenzschloss) of the Prince–bishops in Münster and assumed responsibility for its interior decoration. He created the Yellow Cabinet (destr. World War II, rebuilt with slight alterations) in a Neoclassical style, the walls were yellow with grisaille paintings in the upper corners, the carved ornament gilt, and the roses of the mirror frames painted in naturalistic colours. The Rezidenzschloss is now the main building of the...

Augustusburg

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Axel Klausmeier

The Oxford Companion to the Garden

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...Brühl, Germany, was the favourite residence of the Elector and Archbishop of Cologne Clemens August von Wittelsbach ( 1700–61 ). In 1725 , Clemens August commissioned the Westphalian master builder Johann Conrad Schlaun to build on the ruins of a medieval moated castle. However, from 1728 onwards, the Bavarian court master builder François de Cuvilliés was responsible for turning Augustusburg into one of the most outstanding residences of its time. The building process took more than 40 years and it was only the Archbishop's successor who saw...

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