page_title: Gottfried Semper
section_title: Works (selected)
hierarchical_section_title: Gottfried Semper / Works (selected)
caption_attribution_description: English: Dresden’s old Synagogue by Gottfried Semper (“Semper Synagogue”) build 1839 – 1840, destroyed 1938 during Kristallnacht colored steel engraving about 1860 - 1870 by Louis Thümling after a photograph by Hermann Krone edited by Gustav Georg Lange in Darmstadt Deutsch: alte Synagoge Dresden von Gottfried Semper (“Semper Synagoge”) gebaut 1839 - 1840, zerstört 1938 während der "Reichskristallnacht" kolorierter Stahlstich um 1860 - 1870 von Louis Thümling nach einer Fotografie von Hermann Krone herausgegeben durch Gustav Georg Lange in Darmstadt Français&#160;: synagogue ancienne de Dresde par Gottfried Semper (“Synagogue Semper”) construite en 1839 – 1840, detruite en 1938 pendant la nuit de cristal gravure sur acier de Louis Thümling, colorée environ 1860 - 1870 d`après une photo de Hermann Krone editée par Gustav Georg Lange à Darmstadt
context_page_description: Gottfried Semper was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture, who designed and built the Semper Opera House in Dresden between 1838 and 1841. In 1849 he took part in the May Uprising in Dresden and was put on the government's wanted list. Semper fled first to Zürich and later to London. Later he returned to Germany after the 1862 amnesty granted to the revolutionaries.
  Semper wrote extensively about the origins of architecture, especially in his book The Four Elements of Architecture from 1851, and he was one of the major figures in the controversy surrounding the polychrome architectural style of ancient Greece. Semper designed works at all scales, from major urban interventions like the re-design of the Ringstraße in Vienna, to a baton for Richard Wagner. His unrealised design for an opera house in Munich was, without permission, adapted by Wagner for the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
context_section_description: Dresden
  Hoftheater – 1838-1841 (destroyed by fire in 1869)
  Villa Rosa – 1839 (destroyed in the Second World War)
  Semper Synagogue – 1839-1840 (destroyed on November 9, 1938 - Kristallnacht)
  Oppenheim-Palace – 1845-1848
  Semper Gallery (Dresden Gemäldegalerie)– 1847-1855
  Neues Hoftheater (Semperoper) – 1871-1878
  Zürich
  City Hall – 1858 (only concept for competition; not built)
  Polytechnical School, (ETH Zurich) – 1858-1864
  Observatory - 1861-1864
  Winterthur
  City Hall – 1865-1869
  Vienna
  Municipal Theater (Burgtheater) – 1873 - 1888
  Museum of Art History (Kunsthistorisches Museum) (1872–1881, finished 1889)
  Natural History Museum (Naturhistorisches Museum) (1872–1881, finished 1891)
caption: The Semper Synagogue c. 1860
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