Matteo Pertsch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Austrian architect
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Place of Birth: Buchhorn, Illerkreis
About Matteo Pertsch
- Matteo Pertsch (German: Matthäus Pertsch) (1769 – 11 April 1834) was an Austrian classical architect responsible for many historic structures in Trieste. He was born in Buchhorn (now Friedrichshafen, Germany) to a family of German origin.
- In 1790 he went to Milan to study in the Brera Academy of Fine Arts.
- While there, he was a student of celebrated Italian architect Giuseppe Piermarini. Pertsch married Maddalena Vogel in 1802, who gave him three daughters and four sons.
- Three of the four sons continued in their father's craft as architects.
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