In the history of building, Gottlob Friedrich Thormeyer is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Gottlob Friedrich Thormeyer as German architect (1775-1842).
Gottlob Friedrich Thormeyer was born at Dresden in 1775. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Saxony.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as architect.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
That the work was built in Kingdom of Saxony shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Gottlob Friedrich Thormeyer died in 1842, aged 67. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
