Robert Pflug (Latvian: Roberts Pflūgs; 1 May 1832 – 30 November 1885) was a Baltic German architect.
Robert Pflug | |
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| Born | Robert August Pflug 1 May 1832 |
| Died | 30 November 1885 (aged 53) |
| Nationality | Baltic German |
| Known for | Architecture |
| Movement | Eclecticism, |
Robert August Pflug was born in Saint Petersburg as the son of a merchant. He studied at the Technological Institute in Saint Petersburg between 1846 and 1850 and thereafter at the Imperial Academy of Arts. In 1860 he went on a study trip to Germany and Italy. From 1862 he worked as an architect in Riga, the present-day capital of Latvia, and was a teacher at the Riga Polytechnic Institute (today Riga Technical University) from 1869 to 1875.[1]
Among the buildings designed by Pflug in Riga, the Nativity Cathedral, the House of the Livonian Noble Corporation (designed together with Jānis Frīdrihs Baumanis and Otto von Sievers; today the Latvian parliament, the Saeima) and the Haus Szczytt - House of Justynian Niemirowicz-Szczytt (1814-1894)[2][3] - the building of the present-day Finnish embassy can be mentioned.[1][4]
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The House of the Livonian Noble Corporation in Riga (now Latvian parliament, the Saeima)
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Nativity Cathedral on the Brīvības boulevard 23, Riga. (1876 - 1884)
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Residential building on the Raiņa boulevard 21, Riga. (1875)
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Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God, Riga. (1879)
References
edit- ^ a b "Pflug, Robert August" (in German). Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
- ^ P. Kerkovius, Riga und seine Bauten, 1903, s. 358-361
- ^ T. Żychliński, Złota Księga Szlachty Polskiej, Rocznik IV, Poznań 1882, s. 370-372
- ^ "Embassy building". Embassy of Finland, Riga. Retrieved 2 October 2017.