The present paper discusses F. v. Gartner (1792-1847) and his evolution of the Rundbogenstil in his buildings in Munich. Initial intention of his application of the Rundbogenstil to religious buildings was to express the synthesis of "the Classical and the Medieval". So was the case of the St. Ludwig (1829-44), where the Rundbogen was introduced as a representation of the Medieval. The exterior of St. Ludwig was finished fully with stucco, contrary to the manner of the Medieval churches. But the fact that he also prepared for this project the other facade design with the polychromy means that stucco-finishing was not a sole solution in his thought. In such so-called secular architecture as the Bibliothek (1832-43), the Universitat (1835-40), the Salinendirektion (1838-43), and so forth, the Rundbogen was used in order to embellish their rather elongated facades. While the Rundbogen-windows of the Bibliothek and the Universitat had the Romanesque designs, those of the Blindeninstitut (1833-35), the Damenstift (1835-39), the Salinendirektion, etc. were of much simplified forms. It seems that, in his reasoning, the Bibliothek and the Universitat should impose more monumentality and consequently Gartner varified the designs of the Rundbogen in response to the type of building. Regarding to the Bibliothek, the upper two stories of the facade were of brick. The use of brick here was to relieve the monotony of the facade designed only by the Rundbogen-windows. It was the first attempt on the Ludwigstaβe. In the Damenstift, finished in brown stucco, wemay see the change of his selection of materials. In his later phase, at last the Salinendirektion was solely of brick without any finishing. The Rundbogen-windows were transformed into the profile of simple round arch, which got rid of the former stylistic ornamentation, namely they were intermingled into a new vision of the polychromy by brick. It follows that Gartner in his Rundbogen-architecture had pursued a direction in which brick material could be used in more positive and expressive manner.
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