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Karl Friedrich Schinkel (13 March 1781 – 9 October 1841) was a Prussian architect, city planner and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schinkel was one of the most prominent architects of Germany and designed both Neoclassical and neo-Gothic buildings. [1]
Karl Friedrich Schinkel (born March 13, 1781, near Brandenburg, Brandenburg—died Oct. 9, 1841, Berlin) was a German architect and painter whose Romantic–Classical creations in other related arts made him the leading arbiter of national aesthetic taste in his lifetime.
Karl Friedrich Schinkel 1826, Gemälde von Carl Begas. Schinkels Unterschrift: Karl Friedrich Schinkel (* 13. März 1781 in Neuruppin; † 9. Oktober 1841 in Berlin) war ein Architekt, Stadtplaner, Denkmalpfleger und bildender Künstler in Preußen, der den deutschen Klassizismus und den Historismus entscheidend mitgestaltete.
May 29, 2018 · Karl Friedrich Schinkel was the leading architect in Berlin during the first half of the nineteenth century, one of the most productive and innovative artistic minds of his era, and arguably one of the founders of the modern tradition in architecture as such.
Nov 27, 2017 · It helped that Schinkel was enthusiastic for modern technology: sketching the cotton mills of Manchester in 1826, berating their lack of planning, and bringing more than a whiff of them to his Bauakademie in Berlin (1831-36, now destroyed), which also served as his Berlin residence.
Schinkel (1781–1841) was a man of many talents – not just as an architect, building officer, monument curator and city planner but also as a painter, illustrator, stage designer and designer. Above all though, his many buildings are what shape Berlin to this day.
Between 1826 and 1828, at the height of his influence as Germany's leading architect and most sought-after designer, Karl Friedrich Schinkel was commissioned by Prince Karl of Prussia (1801-1883) to remodel the prince's Berlin palace (destroyed in World War II).
