Johann Felsko is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Johann Felsko as Baltic German architect (1813–1902).
Johann Felsko was born at Riga in 1813. His recorded nationality is Russian Empire. 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.
His work is associated with gothic revival.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Russian Empire shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Johann Felsko died in 1902, aged 89. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Movement: Gothic Revival
- Trained at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
