부산대학교 도서관

(Birkner) (b Ledøje, Zealand, Sept 5, 1800; d Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, July 14, 1856). Danish architect. In 1819 he finished his apprenticeship as a mill-builder; his training had included instruction at the Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi in Copenhagen. In 1820, when he was given the opportunity of further education, he chose to study mathematics and physics with H. C. Ørsted, the discoverer of electromagnetism. Ørsted took him as a travelling companion on a tour through Germany, France and England in 1822. The journey was of great importance to Bindesbøll; in Paris he met H. C. Gau (1790–1853), who aroused his interest in Pompeii and in polychromy in Classical architecture. On his return to Denmark in 1823 he began to study architecture, at the same time acting as clerk of the works to Jørgen Hansen Koch (1789–1860), the court architect. Bindesbøll won the academy’s Gold Medal in 1833 for a design for a Protestant cathedral in a medieval style, which constituted an abrupt break with the Neo-classical tradition prevailing in Denmark. The prize included a travelling scholarship, and in ...