August von Voit

August von Voit ( born February 17, 1801 in Wassertruedingen, † December 12, 1870 in Munich; Complete name: Richard Jakob August von Voit ) was a German architect. He was the son of the architect Johann Michael Voit.

Life

Voit comes from Wassertruedingen, in present-day district of Ansbach, Middle Franconia. He studied from 1822 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Friedrich von Gärtner architecture and trained in Italy and France continue. In 1840 he was the gardener successor to the Chair, a position he held until 1847. After the death gardener Oberbaurat Voit 1847 joined as head of the Supreme Building Authority in the State Building Authority. August von Voit turned in his buildings with a preference for the Romanesque style, which he mimicked the North Germanic and Italian patterns.

Buildings (selection)

An extensive collection of works and associated plans by August von Voit may be inspected at the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich.

• Interior of the classical Protestant parish church in Rinnthal (1831-1834)
• Protestant Church (1839-1840) in low -Ingenheim - Mühlhofen
• Protestant parish church ( 1843-46, together with F. Jodl ) in Albers hamlet, on Channel 2
• Fruit Hall (1843-1846) in Kaiserslautern
• Catholic Church of St. Stephan ( 1843-46, together with F. Jodl ) in Albersweiler, 24 Church Street
• Reconstruction of the Hambach Castle (1844-1846) for " Maxburg " as a " Palatine Hohenschwangau " for the later King Maximilian II; the work was not completed
• Neue Pinakothek (1846-1853) in Munich
• Stained glass building (1846-1853) at the Luis Street in Munich
• City Hall ( 1851) of Annweiler am Trifels
• Conservatory (1852-1853) for Maximilian II at the Munich Residenz
• Chemical Laboratory (1852-1855) for Justus von Liebig in Munich
• Glass Palace (1853-1854), modeled after the London Crystal Palace for the first general German Industry Exhibition 1854 in Munich
• Glass Palace Fountain ( 1854), designed for the Glass Palace, today at the White Platz in Munich- Haidhausen
• Luther Church (1858-1864) in Ludwigshafen am Rhein
• Garden design, garden sheds and greenhouses (1860-1867) for the Botanical Garden in Munich
• Parish Church of the Assumption (1865-1869) in White Horn

Synagogues

1832/1833 was the Jewish community in Ruelzheim the new Rülzheimer synagogue built by August von Voit. Voit has designed the plans of Inge Heimer synagogue and the synagogue in Herxheim, Kallstadt, Kirchheimbolanden and Speyer.