Wolf Caspar von Klengel is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Wolf Caspar von Klengel as German builder, architect and officer.
Wolf Caspar von Klengel was born at Dresden in 1630. His recorded nationality is Germany.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as master builder, architect and military officer.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Germany shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Wolf Caspar von Klengel died in 1691, aged 61. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
