<p>130 years ago, the German architect Gottfried Semper died</p>

Rome/Prague - At the age of 75, the significant German architect and art theorist, and one of the key representatives of European neo-Renaissance, Gottfried Semper, passed away on May 15, 1879. He died in Rome and was buried in the local Protestant cemetery in the shadow of the Pyramid of Cestius. Among those resting there are other famous figures of faith different from Catholicism, such as the English writers John Keats and Percy Shelley or the son of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, August.
    The most structures built according to his designs were realized in Dresden, where he served as a professor of architecture at the local academy from 1834 to 1849. Among the undoubtedly most famous are the Opera House in Theater Square and the Gallery of Old Masters in the nearby Zwinger. The Opera bears his name; its external composition perfectly corresponds to the internal functional arrangement, and due to its excellent acoustics and architectural uniqueness, it ranks among the most significant opera stages in Europe.
    Gottfried Semper is also the author of the impressive building of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and together with Karl Hasenauer, he is credited with one of the most famous Viennese buildings, the grand building of the Court Theatre (Burgtheater). His main theoretical work is Style in Technical and Tectonic Arts.