Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656- 5 April 1723) was an Austrian architect in the Baroque period. Born near Graz, Austria in July 1656, Fisher von Erlach first trained as a sculptor in Rome. He later returned to Austria, where he worked on Church commissions, houses for the aristocracy, and many other notable civic buildings in Austria. Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect, also known as a building designer, is a person involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction, whose role is to guide decisions affecting those building aspects that are of aesthetic, cultural or social concern. ... Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint In arts, the Baroque (or baroque) is both a period and the style that dominated it. ... The Graz Schlossberg Clock Tower Graz [graːts] (Slovenian: Gradec, pronounced grah-dets), with a population of 240,000 (in 2005) is the second-largest city in Austria and the capital of the federal state of Styria (Steiermark in German). ...

Selected Works

• Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna.
• Karlskirche, Vienna.
• Mausoleum of Ferdinand II, Graz.
• Parnas Fountain, Brno.
• Church of the Trinity, Salzburg.
• University Church, Salzburg.

Schönbrunn Palace, as seen from the gardens Fountains The Schönbrunn Palace near Vienna is one of the most important cultural monuments in Austria and since the 1860s has also been one of the major tourist attractions in Vienna. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Hungarian: Bécs) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ... The Karlskirche, or Charles Church, was commissioned by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI in 1715 after Vienna was delivered from a plague epidemic in 1713. ... Brno   listen? (German: Brünn) is the second-largest city of the Czech Republic, located in the southeast of the country, at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers. ... Flag of Salzburg Salzburg (population 145,000 in 2003) is a city in western Austria and the capital of the federal state of Salzburg (population 520,000 in 2003). ...

Sources

Austria.org Information