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Hauberisser, Georg (Joseph), Ritter von
(b Graz, 19 March 1841; d Munich, 17 May 1922). German architect. He studied in Graz, in Munich from 1862 under Georg Friedrich Ziebland and Ludwig Lange (1808–68) and then in Berlin under Johann Heinrich Strack and Carl Boetticher. Continuing his studies in Vienna under Friedrich von Schmidt, he turned away from the Renaissance Revival style, which was then dominant in Munich, towards the Gothic Revival favoured by Schmidt. Hauberisser returned to Munich after winning the competition (1866) for the new Rathaus there at the age of 25. Thereafter he was one of the leading Gothic Revival architects in Germany. His audacious and highly controversial design was the first major Gothic Revival public building in Munich and Hauberisser played an influential part in establishing the style there. The first stage of the Rathaus showed his predilection for Flemish and French Gothic. Later extensions (1888–93 and 1899–1908) employed the same idiom, but the asymmetrical tower and the emphatic verticals marked a departure from the symmetry and the horizontality of the original building. These changes reflected the late 19th-century preference for picturesquely arranged façades and undogmatic historicism.
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