Ludwig Lange

Ludwig Lange (22 March 1808– 31 March 1868) was a German architect and landscape designer.

Life He was the son of a court official and began his training as an architect in 1823 under church designer Georg August Lerch. From 1826 to 1830, he attended the University of Gießen, where he studied with Georg Moller. His studies continued in Munich, where he was a pupil of the landscape painter Carl Rottmann, with whom he undertook a study trip to Greece in 1834.

In 1835, he was appointed to be a drawing teacher at the New Royal High School in Athens and, on 15 May, became a building inspector for King Otto I. His style was a mixture of Classical and Italian Renaissance elements.

Selected designs

1850–1853: Royal Villa in Berchtesgaden, summer home for King Maximilian II of Bavaria 1852: Orthodox Church in Moscow 1854: Bourse in Bergen, Norway 1856: Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig (destroyed in 1943) 1857: Protestant Kirche in Hallstadt 1860: National Archaeological Museum, Athens (Built: 1866–1891. The façade was designed by Ernst Ziller) 1860: Villa Feodora for Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen in Bad Liebenstein

Books Originalansichten der historisch merkwürdigsten Städte in Deutschland, ihrer Dome, Kirchen und sonstigen Baudenkmale (Original Views of the most remarkable historic cities in Germany, their Cathedrals, Churches and other monuments), 6 Vols., Darmstadt 1832–1867. Reiseberichte aus Griechenland (Travelogues from Greece), Darmstadt 1835. Malerische Ansichten der merkwürdigsten und schönsten Kathedralen, Kirchen und Monumente der gothischen Baukunst am Rhein, Main und der Lahn (Picturesque views of the strangest and most beautiful cathedrals, churches and monuments of Gothic architecture on the Rhine, Main and Lahn), Frankfurt 1843. Werke der höheren Baukunst (Works of Higher Architecture), 3 Vols., Darmstadt 1846–1855. Die griechischen Landschaftsgemälde von Karl Rottmann in der neuen königlichen Pinakothek zu München (Greek landscape painting by Karl Rottmann in the new Royal Pinakothek at Munich), Munich 1854. Das Königreich Sachsen, Thüringen und Anhalt in malerischen Original-Ansichten (The Kingdom of Saxony, Thuringia and Anhalt in picturesque original views), 2 Vols., Darmstadt 1857.