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HERIGOYEN, Emanuel Joseph von - b. 1746 Belas, Lisboa, d. 1817 München - WGA

HERIGOYEN, Emanuel Joseph von

(b. 1746 Belas, Lisboa, d. 1817 München)

Portuguese architect, active in Germany. He designed the gardens at Schönbusch, near Aschaffenburg, in the English style, and built there a pavilion in an early Neoclassical style (1778-79). He was responsible for the staircase at Aschaffenburg Schloss, and designed the churches at Esselbach (1779) and Sulzbach-am-Main (1786). Later, at Regensburg, he built the Theatre (1804, destroyed 1849), the circular Kepler Memorial (1808), and other works. In Munich he designed the Volkstheater (destroyed), the Greek Revival entrance to the Botanical Gardens (1812), and the Palais Montgelas (1810-11).

Kepler Monument
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Kepler Monument

Since the French Revolution, there had been great enthusiasm for monuments of every kind in Germany. Most of the projects for monuments to rulers, national monuments, and many others, remained purely notional, and were either never executed or only realised on a small scale. Typical of the late Enlightenment period are monuments to scholars and philosophers, where the classical motif of the monopteron was often chosen, as for example for the Kepler monument by Herigoyen in Regensburg.

The bust is by Friedrich D�ll (1750-1816), the relief by Johann Heinrich von Dannecker (1758-1841).

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