Carl Sattler

Carl Sattler (1877–1966) was a German architect and academic born in Florence to Ernst Sattler, a painter from Schweinfurt. Influenced by sculptor Adolf Hildebrand, Sattler studied architecture at the Dresden Technological Academy and later moved to Munich, where he established his practice in 1898. He collaborated with Hildebrand and married Eva "Nini" Hildebrand, becoming her brother-in-law.

During World War I, Sattler served on the Arts Council under the Munich Soviet. From 1925 to 1933, he directed the Royal Academy of Applied Arts in Munich but was dismissed in 1939 due to his marriage to a Jewish woman. Post-war, he resumed prominence as president of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich until 1957.

Sattler's architectural projects included the Wittelsbacherbrunnen fountain, Villa Loeb, and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology in Berlin-Dahlem. He also reconstructed buildings like Schloss Elmau, which was later rebuilt by his grandchild Christoph Sattler after a fire in 2005.

Awards include the Bavarian Order of Merit and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. His son, Dieter Sattler, played a key role in establishing the Bavarian Fine Arts Academy.