GAERTNER, or GARTNER, JOHANN ANDREAS. Descended himself from a family of architects, Johann Gartner claims notice both on account of his own professional talents, and as being the father of the celebrated FRIEDRICH VON GAERTNER, noticed h-low. Johann Andreas was the son of a former Andreas, a Dresden architect and artist of considerable reputation in the early part of the last century ; and was the nephew of Johann Gartner, a clever architect of the same period and the same place. He was born at Dresden in 1743, and was at first more inclined towards the military profession ; but going to Poland he was induced by Count Minitazek not to give up architecture entirely, but rather to apply himself to engineering also, and he was employed by that nobleman to erect various buildings upon his estates. After that he visited Vienna, Berlin, and Paris, in which last capital he remained nine years, when he was invited to Coblenz, to finish the Residenz or electoral palace there. He next entered the service of the Prince-bishop of Wurzburg, being glad to quit Coblenz (where his son Friedrich was born), the disturbances arising out of the French Revolution having both rendered that city an insecure place of abode, and cut off all prospect of professional employment. He erected seve ral buildings at Wfirzburg and in its neighbourhood, all of which display superior talent and taste ; among others the theatre, the restorations of the church of St, Michael at Werzburg, and Count &belabor:ea chateau at Gail:mach; and he continued to reside at Witraburg after palitical changes had annexed it to Bavaria, and after ho himself had 6.en noceleated as • lessarbus architect, for lie did not remove to
Munich till 1301, when he bad been appointed Dofbeteraten.latit there. He slid not however fled opened to hint in that capital the enlarges' scope for the display of his abilities which he bee promised hineself, for of the various dedgas which lie produced, scarcely any —none of the more important ones—were sleeted for execution. Towards the close of his life he felt the disappointment so bitterly, that Instead of selecting his best designs and publishing them as a memorial of his talents, he destroyed them with his own bands, as if -to present other. from availing themselves of the Ideas which ho had been able to work out only upon paper. Could he have foreseen how much more prosperous a career was reserved for his son, he would probably have borne his own disappointments with less impatience of temper. He died in 1826. aged eighty-three.