Theophil Hansen
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Baron Theophil Edvard von Hansen was a Danish architect who later became an Austrian citizen. He became particularly well known for his buildings and structures in Athens and Vienna, and is considered
Baron Theophil von Hansen
Hansen's grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery
The modern Academy of Athens, next to the University of Athens and the National Library (not shown) forming "the Athenian Trilogy". The academy and the university buildings were designed by Theophil Hansen (1885) in Greek Ionic, academically correct even to the polychrome sculpture. The statues and columns were worked by Leonidas Drosis.
Athens Observatorium
Ringstrasse
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The Ringstrasse or Ringstraße is a 5.3 km circular grand boulevard that serves as a ring road around the historic city centre, the Innere Stadt, of Vienna, Austria. The road is built where the city wa
The Burgring with the Museum of Art History to the right
City plan of Vienna in 1858, showing the context before the construction of the ring
The Schottenring section of the Ringstrasse in 1875
A tram on the Ring