Franz Xaver Heissinger was a landscape architect who began his career in Munich. He seems to have been active in Switzerland planning parks and gardens in the Luzern area in the mid-1860s.
By 1873, he was commissioned to design a plan for the new city of Helvetia (Schweizer-Siedlung) and also exhibited his plans at the Vienna Exhibition in 1873.
He would later move to New York, where he designed a number of hotel gardens, parks, and similar installations.
Gilded Age Landscape Design of "the First Theme Park in the Country". Superb chromolithograph landscape design map, showing the layout for Starin's Glen Island in Long Island Sound, off New Rochelle. The print is the work of Franz Xaver Heissinger, a...
A Gilded Age Design for an Observatory Overlooking Manhattan. Unrecorded color-lithographed architectural plan for the grounds surrounding the Hoboken observatory overlooking Manhattan. The observatory in Hoboken echoed the Latting Observatory on a...
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Original Artwork and Unique Lithographed View For A Gilded Age Hotel on Long Island. A superb pairing of original artwork and unique printed view for a Gilded Age hotel in the upscale neighborhood of Sands Point, Long Island. The lithograph features...
“The Charmingest Place We Have Ever Lived In” (Mark Twain) Fine illustration of the grounds of Hotel Hertenstein on Lake Lucerne, as drawn by German landscape architect Franz Xaver Heissinger. Visted by Mark Twain, King Ludwig and Queen Victoria,...
Detailed Landscape Architecture Plan for a Resort in Seelisberg, on Lake Lucerne in Switzerland. Color-lithographed plan, finished by hand, of beautiful Gilded Age grounds, featuring numerous pavilions, gardens, fountains, and villas. The project was...
Color-lithographed landscape architecture plan for a resort on Lake Lucerne, in Switzerland. The plan shows design elements characteristic of Franz Xaver Heissinger, including winding paths, varied
