Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll
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Constantin Hansen, Portrait of Gottlieb Bindesbøll, 1840
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| Born |
5 September 1800 Ledøje, Denmark |
| Died | 14 July 1856 (aged 55) Frederiksberg, Denmark |
| Nationality | Danish |
| Alma mater | Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Awards | C. F. Hansen Medal (1833) |
| Buildings |
Thorvaldsens Museum Brumleby |
Michael Gottlieb Birckner Bindesbøll (5 September 1800 – 14 July 1856) was a Danish architect active during the Danish Golden Age in the first half of the 19th century. Most known for his design of Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen, he was a key figure in the stylistic shift in Danish architecture from late classicism to Historicism. For Bindesbøll, changing styles was the prelude to amusement and he juggled freely with older models. He was the father of Thorvald Bindesbøll.
Gottlieb Bindesbøll was born on 5 September in Ledøje, a village 20 km west of Copenhagen. He first trained as a windmill builder with the intention of becoming an engineer. Simultaneously, from 1817 to 1823, he was taking night classes at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts to learn to draw.
He attended lectures by Hans Christian Ørsted, the natural scientist, who in 1822 invited him along on a journey to Germany and France. There Bindesbøll got acquainted with Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Classicism and the two men also visited Goethe in Weimar, and met German-born architect and archaeologist Frans Gau, who introduced Bindesbøll to his studies of polychromy in Classical architecture.
Back in Denmark, Bindesbøll starting working as a resident architect for royal building inspector Jørgen Hansen Koch. He also continued his studies at the Academy until 1833, when he won the Academy's large gold medal.
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