Gabriel von Seidl belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Gabriel von Seidl as German architect (1848–1913).
Gabriel von Seidl was born at Munich in 1848. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Bavaria. He trained at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and Technical University of Munich.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect.
Among his best-known works are Bavarian National Museum, Lenbachhaus and Kaulbach-Villa. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: honorary citizen of Munich, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art and honorary citizenship.
That the work was built in Kingdom of Bavaria shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Gabriel von Seidl died in 1913, aged 65. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Bavarian National Museum
- Notable work: Lenbachhaus
- Notable work: Kaulbach-Villa
- Notable work: Schloss Ramholz
- honorary citizen of Munich
- Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
- Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- Trained at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and Technical University of Munich
