Nicolai Eigtved

Nicolai Eigtved, born as Niels Madsen Eigtved ( born June 4, 1701 Egtved, Sjælland, Denmark, † June 7, 1754 in Copenhagen) was a Danish architect, interior designer and in 1735 the royal Danish court architect.

Life

Eigtved was the son of Mads Nielsen and Dorthe Hansdatter. He was in the 1730s to 1740s in Denmark, a leading representative of the Rococo, together with his colleague and rival Laurids de Thurah. He built some of the most famous structures in Denmark in a still the unrivaled number.

He had previously made ​​numerous trips to Germany and Poland made ​​, where he had studied architecture in Berlin, Munich, Dresden and Warsaw. Other architectural studies had led him to Rome and Vienna. During his stay abroad, and especially at the court of Augustus of Saxony in Dresden Eigtved had formed in the Rococo style.

That's why he was the one from 1748, not only the planning of the new Frederiksstad ( now a suburb of Copenhagen), but among other things, also installation of the Amalienborg Square and the construction of Frederik's Church (also: Marble Church, dän. Frederikskirken ) and the Royal Palace Amalienborg Palace with its four, should take over the seat of the royal family today. Eigtved created a plan for the houses and buildings all had to give his consent. He created both by its own buildings as well as by its censorship of the Town, which became one of the most beautiful of his era. The completion after Eigtveds death was the French architect Nicolas- Henri Jardin (1720-1799) transferred who introduced the neoclassical style of the time as a new architecture in Denmark.

From 1744 to 1751 Eigtved built in Schleswig- Holstein Drage Friedrichsruh the castle. He was also instrumental in the founding of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, whose first president he was from 1751 and took her place in Charlotte Borg lock.