The politics of the German Gothic revival

by Michael J. Lewis

August Reichensperger was central to the German Gothic Revival and a major figure in German public life in the critical years before and after national unification in 1871. An architectural theorist, politician, preservationist, and journalist, his wide-ranging interests make this account of his life a veritable intellectual history of Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century. While his colleagues A. W. N. Pugin in England and Eugene Viollet-le-Duc in France are known for their Gothic designs, Reichensperger's Gothic Revival went beyond the purely architectural to address the...

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