August Sicard von Sicardsburg

August Sicard von Sicardsburg (December 6, 1813 in Buda, Hungary, † June 11, 1868 in Weidling near Vienna, also August Siccard of Siccardsburg ) was an Austrian architect, he built together with Eduard van der Null ( 1812-1868 ) the building of the Vienna State Opera ( 1861-1869 ). Sicard and van der Null together won the architectural competition for the major Opernbau, the first monumental building of the new Ringstrasse.

Life

Sicard visited the Stiftsgymnasium Melk and studied at the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna, where he was assistant in 1835. He assisted at times also his teacher Peter von Nobile. With his fellow student van der Null Sicard made ​​from 1839 to 1843 an extensive study tour, from an ongoing working and living community was. Sicardsburg was responsible in the professional part of this symbiosis more for the technical-organizational and van der Null for the aesthetic and decorative part. In 1843 he became a professor at the Vienna Academy. Together with his partner van der Null coined Sicard decisive Austrian architecture of the late Romantic Historicism and influenced later by his students ( at the head of Carl von Hasenauer ) the architectural style of the 19th century in the imperial residence and capital city of Austria. Sicard died shortly after the suicide of his partner of 55 years from tuberculosis. He was buried in the cemetery Grinzinger ( MA group, number 62) in a dedicated grave.

The Siccardsburggasse in Vienna-Favoriten is named after him.

Palais Larisch Mönnich

Plaque on Sicardsburg and van der Nülls residence Schadekgasse 4 in Vienna

Mausoleum of August Sicard von Sicardsburg on Grinzing Cemetery

Known students

• Heinrich von Ferstel (1828-1883)