Gottfried Semper
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Gottfried Semper was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture who designed and built the Semper Opera House in Dresden between 1838 and 1841. In 1849 he took part in the May Upris
Semper in 1870
Monument to Gottfried Semper on Brühl's Terrace next to Albertinum
Dresden, Interior of the first Hoftheater (Semper Oper)
Gottfried Semper
Bayreuth Festspielhaus
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The Bayreuth Festspielhaus or Bayreuth Festival Theatre is an opera house north of Bayreuth, Germany, built by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner and dedicated solely to the performance o
Gottfried Semper
…Ringstraße in Vienna, to a baton for Richard Wagner. His unrealised design for an opera house in Munich was, without permission, adapted by Wagner for the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. Semper was born into a well-to-do industrialist family in Hamburg in 1803. When French troops occupied the city in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars…
The Festspielhaus, home of the Bayreuth Festival, in 2006
Aerial view of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus
Patronage certificate for funding the Bayreuth festival, issued 22nd May 1922
Building (1882)