Carl Gangolf Kayser

Carl Kayser Gangolf ( alternate spelling: Carl Gangolph Kaiser, born February 12, 1837 in Vienna, † 2 September 1895 in Inzersdorf (Vienna) ) was an Austrian architect.

Life

Carl Kayser Gangolf was enrolled at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and also in the sculpture class. A school training as an architect has not yet been demonstrated. However, he is led into the Academy as a non- matriculated student of Friedrich von Schmidt. He specialized in medieval architecture.

After several study trips he accompanied Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria to Mexico, where he worked as a court architect of the then Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico from 1864 to 1867. Kayser was planning a renovation of the Palacio Nacional and the Chapultepec Castle and Tehuantepec. After the collapse of the Mexican Empire, he returned to Austria and worked on the restoration of the Palais Auersperg in Vienna and several castles in Lower Austria, such as cross stone under Johann Nepomuk Graf Wilczek in cooperation with Humbert Walcher Knights of Molthein and the artist Egon Rheinberger, Liechtenstein Castle, and Castle Seebarn in the community Harmannsdorf.

On Kreuzenstein stone is a manufactured on behalf of Count Wilczek by Viktor Tilgner portrait bust of the architect and a plaster cast of the same in the Vienna Museum. A recorded by Josef Löwy photograph of the bust can be seen in the collection over Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico on Hardegg Castle.

Buildings

• Kreuzenstein Castle
• Castle Hardegg
• Liechtenstein Castle
• Šternberk

Gallery

Kreuzenstein Castle

Castle Hardegg

Liechtenstein Castle

Šternberk