Karl Friedrich Schinkel
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| Karl Friedrich Schinkel | |
| Born | 1781; Neuruppin, Prussia |
| Died | 1841; Berlin, Germany |
| Notes | |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/architects/Karl_Friedrich_Schinkel.html |
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- Altes Museum, at Berlin, Germany, 1823 to 1830. Archiplanet page GreatBuildings page
- Hunting Lodge, at Antonin, Germany, 1822. Archiplanet page GreatBuildings page
- Schauspielhaus, at Berlin, Germany, 1821. Archiplanet page GreatBuildings page
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(b. Neuruppin, Prussia 1781; d. Berlin, Germany 1841)
Karl Schinkel was born in Neuruppin, Prussia in 1781. He studied under Friedrich Gilley at the Bauakademie in Berlin. Between 1803 and 1805, he travelled through Italy and France. He returned to a French controlled Prussia where he worked as a painter and stage designer.
After the French were driven out of Prussia, Schinkel was appointed Surveyor to the Prussian Building Commission. As surveyor he redesigned the city with a series of buildings that expressed Prussia's cultural ambitions and national pride.
General disenchantment with France turned most Prussian architects against the classical Roman manner favoured by the Ecole des Beaux Arts. This national rejection led Schinkel to design in a Neo-Greek style that symbolically recalled the political and moral freedom of Athenian Greece.
Although he preferred classic architecture, Schinkel created designs in both Classic and Gothic manners. His drawings suggest a continuous analysis between Neoclassical Prussia and Periclean Athens.
Schinkel died in Berlin, Germany in 1841.
References
Dennis Sharp. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture. New York: Quatro Publishing, 1991. ISBN 0-8230-2539-X. NA40.I45. p137.
