Johan Henrik Nebelong is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Johan Henrik Nebelong as Danish architect (1817-1871).
Johan Henrik Nebelong was born at Copenhagen in 1817. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Denmark. He trained at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
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.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Kingdom of Denmark shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Johan Henrik Nebelong died in 1871, aged 54. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
