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Officer, architect and painter Georg Wenzeslaus Baron von Knobelsdorff, 1737 (by Antoine Pesne, 1738) (Hans) Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (17 February 1699 – 16 September 1753) was a painter and architect in Prussia. Knobelsdorff was born in Kuckädel, now in Krosno Odrzańskie County.
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…the late German Baroque style; Georg Venzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, who built Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam just outside Berlin for Frederick the Great; and Karl Friedrich Schinkel, who gave the centre of Berlin its characteristic Neoclassical grandeur.
Ein preußischer Architekt und Maler im Dienste Friedrichs des Großen, der für das Friderizianische Rokoko bekannt ist. Er baute unter anderem Sanssouci, das Opernhaus, das Forum Fridericianum und den Tiergarten in Berlin.
The palace was designed and built by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff between 1745 and 1747 to meet Frederick's need for a private residence where he could escape the pomp and ceremony of the royal court.
Between 1745 and 1747, the palace was constructed according to Frederick II’s vision and the designs of Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff. The building forms the centerpiece of the Sanssouci Park and represents a highlight of Frederician architecture.
Sanssouci Palace – History. In 1745, Friedrich II commissioned his architect Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff to build him a small summer palace. Finished just two years later, it was set above a terraced vineyard with trellises and glazed niches, all laid out at the same time.
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Prussian aristocrat, architect, and soldier. He was a friend of Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia (1712–86—later King Frederick II (the Great)), and built for him the circular Tuscan temple of Apollo in the gardens of Amalthée at Neu-Ruppin, Brandenburg (1735).
