# Exterior view [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HOLL, Elias I]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary Holl's greatest achievement is undoubtedly the Augsburg Rathaus, a work with all traces of the Gothic eliminated. The nine-storey east front, divided into three vertical ranges, is articulated, save for two cornices, by the fenestration alone. This indicates at a glance the relative importance of the rooms behind: administrative offices and smaller public rooms at the sides, ceremonial halls in the middle, culminating in the Goldene Saal \(destroyed 1944; restored 1982-93\), which runs through three storeys and the whole depth of the building. The composition is framed by two towers, intended, in Holl's words, 'to achieve a bolder, more heroic appearance'. View the <a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/support/plans/h/holl1/augsburg.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=400,height=600'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">plans</a> of the ground floor with the three-nave vestibule \(above\) and the second floor with the Goldene Saal in the middle \(below\). ## Related artworks - [Exterior view]() - [Interior view]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()