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Kornhäusel, Josef Georg
© Copyright Josef Kornhäusel, Weilburg near Baden, engraving around 1823 Kornhäusel, Josef Georg, b. Vienna, Nov. 13, 1782, d. Vienna, Oct. 31, 1860, architect, major exponent of Romantic Historicism . Constructed palaces, especially for the Lichtenstein family (residences in Eisgrub/Lednice, Czech Republic) and Archduke Karl (Weilburg near Baden, 1823, destroyed) and residential buildings for a varied middle-class clientele. 
© Copyright Josef Georg Kornhäusel, painting by H. Stugmeyer Works: Lower Austria: Husarentempel near Mödling, 1812; theatre and town hall in Baden, 1815; extension of the monastery of Klosterneuburg, 1834-1842. - Vienna: Theater in der Josefstadt, 1822; interior decoration of the Albertina, after 1822; synagogue Seitenstettengasse, 1824-1826; Mechitaristenkloster, 1836/37; reconstruction of the Schottenstift 1926-1932. Literature: P. Tausig, J. K., 1916; H. Herzmansky, J. K., doctoral thesis, Vienna 1964; G. W. Rizzi and R. L. Schachel, Die Zinshäuser im Spätwerk J. K., 1979; NDB.
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