"Gustav Ludolf Martens (20 October 1818 – 7 January 1882) was a German architect and state master builder of Kiel. Martens worked in Denmark during the ...
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1850s century and influenced architecture in and around Aarhus in Jutland. Martens was born in the Hanseatic city of Wismar where he was trained as a carpenter. In 1837 he attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and obtained a degree in architecture in 1838. Martens moved back to Germany where he studied in Vienna and Munich before he eventually found work in Hamburg where he worked for a number of years. In the 1850s Martens moved to Kiel." - (en.wikipedia.org 12.06.2024)