Nationality Bavarian Alma mater Munich Academy | Occupation Architect Name Eduard Mezger | |
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Born February 13, 1807 ( 1807-02-13 ) Pappenheim Died September 16, 1894(1894-09-16) (aged 87)
Munich Buildings Siegestor (completion work) | ||
Friedrich Eduard Mezger (February 13, 1807 – September 16, 1894) was a Bavarian architect, painter, professor, and a high civil officer of the royal buildings administration, called Oberbaurat (literally "top architect").
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Biography
Mezger was born in Pahuppenheim, son of the government building officer Kaspar Mezger. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he was a student of Friedrich von Gärtner from 1825 to 1828, who enabled him to take part in monumental works in Athens. After his return in 1833 he became a professor in civil engineering at the Technical University of Munich, then Oberbaurat in 1846. He contributed to the design of several public and private buildings, amongst them the house of the painter Friedrich Dürck. After Gärtner's death in 1847, he completed the works of the Siegestor in 1850.
He died in Munich in 1894, survived by his wife Magareta and his daughter Emilie. He is buried in the Old Southern Cemetery.