Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, born Johann Bernhard Fischer (20 July 1656 – 5 April 1723) was probably the most influential Austrian architect of the Baroque period.
Architectural tastes throughout the Habsburg Empire were profoundly influenced by his ideas, as articulated in A Plan of Civil and Historical Architecture (1721), one of the first and most popular comparative studies of world architecture.
Read more about Johann Bernhard Fischer Von Erlach: Early Life in Italy, Service Under Joseph I, Salzburg and Late Works, Selected Works
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“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.”
—Ernst Fischer (1899–1972)
“And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)