Anton Erhard Martinelli

Who was Anton Erhard Martinelli?

Anton Erhard Martinelli was an Austrian architect and master-builder of Italian descent.

Martinelli was born in Vienna. He was the son of architect Franz Martinelli.

Anton Erhard Martinelli supervised the construction of several important buildings in Vienna, such as the Karlskirche and the Palais Schwarzenberg or the remodelling of the Deutschordenskirche. He designed the plans of the Palais Thinnfeld in Graz and of Invalidenhaus in Budapest, now the city hall.

In cooperation with his brother Johann Baptist Martinelli, he also designed the plans of several baroque churches in the Habsburg empire, among which Holy Trinity Cathedral in Blaj and carried out work for the estates of the Esterházy family He also worked on the Lanschütz mansion and the Veľký Biel mansion in Western Slovakia, and the restoration of the Dvorac Zrinskih of the Croatian counts in Čakovec, Croatia.

He died in Vienna in 1747.