Joseph Kornhäusel

Josef Georg Kornhäusel (13 November, 1782, in Vienna - 31 October, 1860, in Vienna) was an Austrian architect of the first half of the 19th century. He primarily employed the contemporary style of Neoclassical architecture, moving to the Biedermeier style in his later oevre.

Kornhäusel was court architect to Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein, for whom he had built palaces, theaters and garden pavilions. ^[1]

Major works

Domestic architecture: Numerous apartment buildings and villas in Vienna and Baden
Theater in der Josefstadt, 1822
Interior of the museum Albertina, 1822
Stadttempel, the main synagogue of the Jewish community in Vienna, 1824-1826
Extension to the Schottenstift, 1826-1832
Extension of the château in Hnojník

External links

Joseph Kornhäusel in the Aeiou Encyclopedia (German)

references

^ Rachel Wischnitzer, Architecture of the European Synagogue, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1964, p. 178.

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Name	Kornhausel, Joseph
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Date of birth	13 November 1782
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Date of death	31 October 1860
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