Gottfried Semper

Gottfried Semper (November 29 1803 - May 15 1879) was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture, who designed and built the Semper Oper in Dresden between 1838 and 1841. In 1849 he took part in the May Uprising in Dresden and was put on the government's wanted list. Semper fled first to Z?rich and later to London. Later he returned to Germany after the 1862 amnesty granted to the revolutionaries.

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Semper wrote extensively about the origins of architecture, especially in his book The Four Elements of Architecture from 1851, and he was one of the major players of the controversial debates surrounding polychrome architecture of ancient Greece. Beside the Dresden Opera House and the Bayreuth Festspielhaus he designed works at any scale, from a baton for Richard Wagner to urban interventions like the re-design of the Ringstrasse in Vienna.

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