Ludwigskirche
Gärtner's first major church and a key work of Bavarian Romanticism. Consecrated in 1844. With the world's second-largest altar fresco — Peter von Cornelius painted The Last Judgement here.
Italian Romanesque in Munich
Built 1829–1844 as the Catholic parish church of the Maxvorstadt parish attached to the University Quarter, St. Ludwig is Friedrich von Gärtner's architectural key work and the central sacred building on Ludwigstraße. Style: Italian Romanesque, with a basilican plan flanked by two towers and a polychrome sandstone façade. It stands opposite Klenze's classicist Königsplatz as a counterpart — Romanticism against classicism.
Construction was led by the master stonemason Franz Höllriegel. From 1836 to 1840 Peter von Cornelius created his monumental fresco The Last Judgement in the chancel: 19 metres high, 11 metres wide — the world's second-largest altar fresco after Michelangelo's in the Sistine Chapel.
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