Catholic Parish and University Church Saint Louis, Munich: Detail, raking view of central portal and part of flanking screen

The patron was King Ludwig I of Bavaria. The Ludwigskirche was a unique achievement of its time, the answer to G\u00E4rtner's quest for a style that could develop the artistic possibilities he believed were concealed in early medieval architecture. The mature solution was a basilica with transept and a rectangular choir, the street fa\u00E7ade dominated by tall, elegant, twin towers; the parsonage and G\u00E4rtner's own house were connected to the entrance fa\u00E7ade by round-arched arcades, giving a horizontal emphasis to the street front. Peter Cornelius provided choir and transept with monumental frescoes depicting the Christian creed, dominated by a gigantic Last Judgment (1839) on the choir wall above the high altar.