Johan Daniel Herholdt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Slagelse, Region Zealand, Denmark
About Johan Daniel Herholdt
- Johan Daniel Herholdt (13 August 1818 – 11 April 1902) was a Danish architect, professor and royal building inspector.
- He worked in the Historicist style and had a significant influence on Danish architecture during the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.
- His most famous work is the Copenhagen University Library in Fiolstræde in Copenhagen which heralded a new trend.
- The strong use of red brick in large-scale cultural and civic buildings was to characterize Danish architecture for several decades.
- He was a leading proponent of the "national" school in Danish architecture of the period as opposed to Ferdinand Meldahl's and Vilhelm Dahlerup's "European" school.
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