Ludvig Petersen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Danish architect (1848-1935)
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Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
About Ludvig Petersen
- Ludvig Adolph Petersen was a Danish architect, teacher and a founding member and board member of the Architects' Association of Denmark.
- Ludvig Petersen primarily worked as an architect in Vejle and Aarhus.
- His parents were Zacharias Petersen, a ship's builder at Holmen in Copenhagen and teacher at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and Emilie Sophie Thortsen.
- His brother was Edvard Petersen, painter and teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts.
- He married Agnes Theodora Walther, the daughter of Vilhelm Theodor Walther, in 1881 and his son is the botanist and sketch artist Vagn Petersson.
- Ludvig Petersen died 10 April 1935 and is buried at Holmens Cemetery in Copenhagen.Ludvig Petersen was originally trained as a carpenter between 1865-68 but attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen from where he graduated with a degree in architecture.
- Between 1872-80 he was a teacher at the Technical School in Copenhagen before he moved to Vejle to work both as a teacher and principal in the Vejle Technical School between 1880 and 1888.
- From 1888 to 1918 he lived and worked in Aarhus as a teacher the technical school there.
- In 1877-80 he worked as the conductor at the renovation of Aarhus Cathedral under Wilhelm Theodor Walther.
- In 1880 he opened his own architects' practice.Among Ludvig Petersen's best known works are a number of schools in Aarhus; Technical School on Ingerslevs Plads and the elementary schools in Finsensgade, N.J.
- Fjords Gade, Paradisgade, Ny Munkegade and Læssøesgade.
- His works architecturally shift between different Historicist styles.
- The tower on St.
- Nicolai Church and Missionshuset in Vejle have a Neo Gothic appearance with red brick and pointy-arched windows.
- The tower has stepped buttresses in the corners and a wide cornice-frieze while Missionshuset has frieze and windows framed by yellow brick.
- The Neo-Gothic style is a common element in many of Ludvig Petersen's school buildings while Vejle Theater in an example of Baroque Revival architecture.
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