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HEIDELOFF, KARL See also:ALEXANDER VON (1788–1865) , See also:German architect, the son of See also:Victor See also:Peter Heideloff, a painter, was See also:born at See also:Stuttgart. He studied at the See also:art See also:academy of his native See also:town, and after following the profession of an architect for some See also:time at See also:Coburg was in 1818 appointed See also:city architect at See also:Nuremberg. In 1822 he became See also:professor at the See also:polytechnic school, holding his See also:post until 1854, and some years later he was chosen See also:conservator of the monuments of art. Heideloff devoted his See also:chief See also:attention to the See also:Gothic See also:style of See also:architecture, and the buildings restored and erected by him at Nuremberg and in its neighbourhood attest both his See also:original skill and his purity of See also:taste. He also achieved some success as a painter in See also:water-See also:colour. He died at Hassfurt on the 28th of See also:September 1865. Among his architectural See also:works should be mentioned the See also:castle of Reinhardsbrunn, the See also:Hall of the Knights in the fortress at Coburg, the castle of Landsberg,the See also:mortuary See also:chapel in See also:Meiningen, the little castle of Rosenburg near See also:Bonn, the chapel of the castle of Rheinstein near See also:Bingen, and the See also:Catholic See also:church in See also:Leipzig. His See also:powers in restoration are shown in the castle of Lichtenstein, the See also:cathedral of See also:Bamberg, and the Knights' Chapel (See also:Ritter Kapelle) at Hassfurt. Among his writings on architecture are See also:Die Lehre von den Sdulenordnungen (1827); Der Kleine Vignola (1832); Niirnbergs Baudenkmaler der Vorzeit (1838–1843, See also:complete edition 1854) ; and Die Ornamentik See also:des Mittelalters (1838–1842).

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