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Author: Döring, Oskar
Title: Bodo Ebhardt. Ein deutscher Baumeister.
Publication: Berlin-Grunewald, Burgverlag GMBH 1925.
Price: Sold
Reference: 05634
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4to. 184pp, incl 275 text ills, photos and reproductions of drawings, also 7 plates (6 coloured) not included in pagination. Publisher’s cloth. A good copy.
A comprehensive illustrated record of the architectural work of the German architect Bodo Ebhardt. Born in 1865 in Bremen in North Germany, Ebhardt was almost unique among architects of his time in that he specialised in castles, chiefly as a restoration architect but where necessary designing complete new castellated structures on romantic hilltop sites. Major commissions of his included the restoration of the Hochkönigsburg fortress at Schlettstadt in Alsace for the Emperor Wilhelm II, and the restoration of the huge mediaeval castle at Koburg as a residence for the Duke of Sachsen-Koburg and Gotha. He also became an acknowledged authority on the history of castle architecture and produced what is still a useful listing of printed editions of Vitruvius, based on his own extensive personal collection.