Rudolf Wiegmann

His father was a Lieutenant (later Captain) in the Tenth Infantry Regiment and was killed at the Battle of Waterloo, where he was serving as an adjutant to Colonel Georg du Plat [de].

After 1823, he and Andreae attended the University of Göttingen, where he studied history, the natural sciences and archaeology and was especially impressed by the lectures of Karl Otfried Müller.

He began his art studies in Darmstadt with the City Architect, Georg Moller,[2] who encouraged him to supplement his class work through practical research in Rome.

After his return, he devoted himself to creating vedute of Hanover; oil paintings, watercolors, lithographs and etchings, which he published as an album in 1835.

During this time, his only architectural work involved a tomb vault for Johann Ludwig Söhlmann (1797–1834), a leather manufacturer.

[2] From 1846, he was also head of the Academic Secretariat, under Director Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, and was responsible for correspondence, matriculations and programs.