Wolf Caspar von Klengel

Klengel's maternal grandparents were the captain of the Saxon Life Guards, Wolfgang Fischer, and the granddaughter of the famous court architect Paul Buchner, who worked in Saxony.

As part of his privately organised education, he learned good Latin and Greek as well as modern subjects such as mathematics and drawing.

Until his death, he also acted as supervisor of the electoral art chamber, for which he purchased numerous works, including a painting by Peter Paul Rubens.

Klengel's first major project was the redecoration of the electoral living and state rooms in the west wing of the Dresden Residential Palace.

When almost the entire present-day Innere Neustadt of Dresden was destroyed in the Altendresden fire of 1685, Klengel drew up the plans for its reconstruction.

Between 1675 and 1686, the Bleesern electoral stud farm near Wittenberg and the Holy Trinity Church in Carlsfeld near Eibenstock in the Erzgebirge mountains were built according to his design in 1684-1688.