Sulpiz Boisserée

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Sulpiz Boisserée

German architect

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Cologne Cathedral
…the 1820s, spurred on by Sulpiz Boisserée, a German proponent of the Gothic Revival movement. In 1842 a new cornerstone was laid by King Frederick William IV of Prussia, and work to complete the cathedral resumed in earnest. The architects Ernst Friedrich Zwirner and Richard Voigtel carried out the enterprise,…
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…the 1820s, spurred on by Sulpiz Boisserée, a German proponent of the Gothic Revival movement. In 1842 a new cornerstone was laid by King Frederick William IV of Prussia, and work to complete the cathedral resumed in earnest. The architects Ernst Friedrich Zwirner and Richard Voigtel carried out the enterprise,…
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Western architecture
Germany and central Europe
Sulpiz Boisserée was the most active and enthusiastic of early Gothic Revivalists. His great preoccupation was the cathedral of Cologne, which he measured minutely, starting in 1808 but continuing up to the publication of Ansichten, Risse und einzelne Theile des Doms von Köln (“Elevations, Sections,…
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Sulpiz Boisserée was the most active and enthusiastic of early Gothic Revivalists. His great preoccupation was the cathedral of Cologne, which he measured minutely, starting in 1808 but continuing up to the publication of Ansichten, Risse und einzelne Theile des Doms von Köln (“Elevations, Sections,…
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