Anton Erhard Martinelli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Austrian architect
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Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
About Anton Erhard Martinelli
- Anton Erhard Martinelli (1684 – September 15, 1747) was an Austrian architect and master-builder of Italian descent. Martinelli was born in Vienna.
- He was the son of architect Franz Martinelli. Anton Erhard Martinelli supervised the construction of several important buildings in Vienna, such as the Karlskirche and the Palais Schwarzenberg or the remodelling of the Deutschordenskirche.
- He designed the plans of the Palais Thinnfeld in Graz and of Invalidenhaus (Invalidus-palota) in Budapest, now the city hall. In cooperation with his brother Johann Baptist Martinelli, he also designed the plans of several baroque churches in the Habsburg empire, among which Holy Trinity Cathedral in Blaj and carried out work for the estates of the Esterházy family (such as the country house in Fertod) He also worked on the Lanschütz mansion (in Bernolákovo) and the Velký Biel mansion in Western Slovakia, and the restoration of the Dvorac Zrinskih (Zrinski Castle) of the Croatian counts in Cakovec, Croatia. He died in Vienna in 1747.
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