The Kaiserpalast was a five-storey neo-Baroque

Neo-Baroque

Neo-Baroque may refer to:*Neo-Baroque music*Neo-Baroque painting*Baroque Revival architecture...

 building in Dresden

Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....

, which stood on the north side of the Pirnaischer Platz

Pirnaischer Platz

Pirnaischer Platz is a square in Dresden, Germany. It is the site of the city's Landhaus....

 between Moritzring and Amalienstraße. It was built between 1895 and 1897 as the Geschäftshaus Ilgen by the architects Schilling und Graebner

Schilling & Graebner

Schilling & Graebner was founded by the architects Rudolf Schilling and Julius Graebner in Dresden in 1889. Over the years Schilling & Graebner changed their style repeatedly. Starting with historistic buildings they became especially known as leading German architects of Art Nouveau and Modernity...

 for the businessman Hermann Ilgen

Hermann Ilgen

Friedrich Hermann Ilgen was a German pharmacist, businessman and patron of art and sport....

.

It had one tower and on its gable were statues by Hans Hartmann-MacLean

Hans Hartmann-MacLean

Hans Hartmann-MacLean, born Hans Rudolf Hartmann was a German sculptor. He studied from 1879 to 1885 at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where his tutors included Johannes Schilling....

. Its porch had a huge window designed by Josef Goller

Josef Goller

Josef Goller was a German designer, most notably of stained glass.-Life:Goller was apprentice at Franz Mayer & Co. and attended the School of Applied Arts in Munich...

. The ground and first floors were faced with sandstone and the other floors' facades were plastered. It housed a restaurant and a bank. It was destroyed in February 1945 during the bombing of Dresden

Bombing of Dresden in World War II

The Bombing of Dresden was a military bombing by the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force and as part of the Allied forces between 13 February and 15 February 1945 in the Second World War...

and the remaining ruins were demolished in 1951.

External links

Stadtwiki Dresden