Carl Gangolf Kayser

Carl Gangolf Kayser was enrolled in the sculpture class of the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna and in that of Munich.

After several trips during the Second Mexican Empire, he was appointed court architect by Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico in 1866.

After arriving in Mexico City, he planned various architectural projects in the Palacio Nacional and the Castle of Chapultepec, and continued the work of the architects Julius Hofmann and Ramón Rodríguez Arangoiti, who were the main builders of Chapultepec Castle, in Mexico.

[1] Drawings of other Mexican projects exist in archives in Mexico City, but they were not realized.

Kayser is an interesting figure in part because of all the drawings of projected buildings he left behind in Mexico, while only a few were completed.