Officer, architect and painter Georg Wenzeslaus Baron von Knobelsdorff in a portrait by Adam Manyoki, a court painter from Dresden

Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (Born 17 February 1699 at Kuckädel in what is now Krosno Odrzańskie (Crossen an der Oder); Died 16 September 1753 in Berlin) was a painter and architect in Prussia. February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events January 26 - Treaty of Karlowitz signed March 30 - the tenth Sikh Master, Guru Gobind Singh created the Khalsa. ... Krosno OdrzaÅ„skie (German: Crossen an der Oder) is a city in Western Poland with 12,500 inhabitants (2002), situated in the Lubusz Voivodship (since 1999), previously capital of Zielona Góra Voivodship (1975-1998). ... September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years). ... 1753 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... is the capital city and a single state of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... A painter is a person who paints woodwork, walls, etc. ... Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction. ... The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia (Old Prussian: PrÅ«sa, German: Preußen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: PrÅ«sai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad...

First he was a soldier in the service of Prussia and resigned his commission in 1729 as captain so that he could dedicate himself to his interest in architecture. In 1740 he travelled to Paris and Italy at the expense of the new king, Frederick II of Prussia, to study. Captain is both a nautical term and a rank in various uniformed organizations. ... Frederick II of Prussia (January 24, 1712 – August 17, 1786) was a king of Prussia from the Hohenzollern dynasty, reigning from 1740 to 1786. ...

He was influenced as an architect by the French Baroque Classicism and by Palladian architecture. With his interior design and the equipment of the king, he created the basis for the Frederickian Rococo style at Rheinsberg, which was the seat of the monarch at that time. Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint. ... Classicism door in Olomouc, The Czech Republic. ... A villa with a superimposed portico, from Book IV of Palladios I Quattro Libri dellArchitettura, in a modestly priced English translation published in London, 1736. ... Interior design is the process of shaping the experience of interior space, through the manipulation of spatial volume as well as surface treatment. ... Rheinsberg is a town and a municipality in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district, in Brandenburg, Germany. ...

He was the head custodian of all of the royal buildings and a secret council on financial matters.

Karl Begas the younger created a statue of Knobelsdorff in 1886. This used to stand in the entrance hall of the Altes Museum (in Berlin) and is now in a depot of the state museum. Berlin, Old Museum, June 2003 The Altes Museum or Old Museum was originally for the Prussian Royal familys art collection, built in Berlin in a neoclassical style by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel between 1823 and 1830. ...

Works

• Rheinsberg palace, extension (see also Rheinsberg)
• 1743 - Berlin State Opera (his main work in the Classical style)
• 1740-1742 - Charlottenburg Palace, new wing (in his time the so called New Palace)
• 1744 - 1752 reconstruction of the early Rococo Potsdam City Palace into the second Prussian winter residence (next to Berlin) with its richly furnished interior
• Since 1745 - Sanssouci in Potsdam (effecting the King's plans)
• Palace at Zerbst (see also Zerbst)
• Parks Tiergarten in Berlin

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External links

• Works of and about Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff in the DDB catalogue
• Web page about Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (archINFORM database)