The Old Museum in Berlin

Karl Friedrich Schinkel (March 13, 1781 - October 9, 1841) was a German architect and painter. Schinkel was the most prominent architect of neoclassicism in Prussia. Photo of Old Museum at Berlin (taken June 7, 2003 by djmutex), herewith licensed under GFDL. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Photo of Old Museum at Berlin (taken June 7, 2003 by djmutex), herewith licensed under GFDL. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). ... 1781 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... October 9 is the 282nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (283rd in Leap years). ... take you to calendar). ... Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction. ... Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture. ... The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia (Old Prussian: Prūsa, German: Preußen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: Prūsai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad...

Born in Neuruppin (Brandenburg), he lost his father at the age of six in Neuruppin's disastrous fire. He became a student of Friedrich Gilly (1772-1800) (the two became close friends) and his father, David Gilly, in Berlin. After returning to Berlin from his first trip to Italy in 1805, he started to earn his living as a painter. When he saw Caspar David Friedrich's painting "Monk by the sea" (Der Mönch am Meer) at the 1810 Berlin art exhibition he decided that he would never reach such a mastership in painting and definitely turned to architecture. After Napoleon's defeat, Schinkel oversaw the Prussian Building Commission. In this position, he was not only responsible for reshaping the still relatively unspectacular city of Berlin into a representative capital for Prussia, but also oversaw projects in the expanded Prussian territories spanning from the Rhineland in the West to Königsberg in the East. Neuruppin is a town in Brandenburg, Germany. ... Surrounding but excluding the national capital Berlin, Brandenburg is one of Germanys sixteen Bundesländer (federal states). ... Friedrich David Gilly (1772 - 1800) was a German architect born in Pomerania, known as a prodigy and the teacher of the young Karl Friedrich Schinkel. ... (help· info), IPA: , is the capital city as well as a state of Germany, and also the countrys largest city. ... Self-portrait in chalk, 1810 by fellow artist Georg Friedrich Kersting, 1812 Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840) was a 19th century German romantic painter, considered by many critics to be one of the finest exemplars of the movement. ... Former German name of the city of Kaliningrad. ...

Neue Wache in Berlin

Schinkel's style, in his most productive period, is defined by a turn to Greek rather than Imperial Roman architecture, an attempt to turn away from the style that was linked to the recent French occupiers. (Thus, he is a noted proponent of the Greek Revival.) His most famous buildings are found in and around Berlin. These include Neue Wache (1816-1818), the Schauspielhaus (1819-1821) at the Gendarmenmarkt, which replaced the earlier theater that was destroyed by fire in 1817, and the "Old" Museum or Altes Museum (see photo) on Museum Island (1823-1830). Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 1942 KB) Summary New Guard House (Neue Wache), Berlin Author: Wojsyl, 2005 Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Karl Friedrich Schinkel Neue Wache Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 1942 KB) Summary New Guard House (Neue Wache), Berlin Author: Wojsyl, 2005 Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Karl Friedrich Schinkel Neue Wache Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or... Personal residence of Catherine the Great Greek Revival was a style of classical architecture which became fashionable in Europe in the 18th century, and in the United Kingdom and United States in the early 19th century. ... Neue Wache in Berlin The New Guard House in Berlin (German: ) was the first building in Berlin to be designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. ... The Gendarmenmarkt is one of the most beautiful squares in Berlin, surrounded by the Concert Hall, the French and the German Cathedral. ... [1] The Altes Museum or Old Museum was originally for the German Royal familys art collection, built in Berlin in a neoclassical style by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel between 1823-1830 AD. The building uses the Doric Parthenon in Athens as a model, not only with respect to features... Old Museum (June 2003) Museum Island (or, in German, Museumsinsel) in Berlin, Germany, is the name of the northern half of an island in the Spree river, in the center of the city. ...

Schinkel's Neues Schauspielhaus ("New Theatre"), Berlin

Schinkel, however, is noted as much for his theoretical work and his architectual drafts as for the relatively few buildings that were actually executed to his designs. Maybe his merits are best shown in his unexecuted plans for the transformation of the athenian Acropolis into a royal palace for the new Kingdom of Greece and for the erection of the Orianda Palace in the Crimea. These and other designs may be studied in his Sammlung architektonischer Entwürfe (1820-1837) and his Werke der höheren Baukunst (1840-1842; 1845-1846). He also designed the famed Iron Cross medal of Prussia, and later Germany. Image File history File links Perspective view of Schinkels Neues Schauspielhaus, in Berlin 19th century published engraving File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Perspective view of Schinkels Neues Schauspielhaus, in Berlin 19th century published engraving File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Acropolis in Athens. ... Official Tourist Site HR-Net (Hellenic Resources Network)/ comprehensive Greek news site Official Greek Statistics Site Ask for Greece/ A volunteer community for Q&As about Greece Greece Museums/ Museum directory of Greece Take a short virtual tour of Athens Take a long virtual tour of Athens Greece Webcam Radio... Crimea /kraɪˈmia/ is a peninsula and an autonomous republic of Ukraine on the northern coast of the Black Sea. ... A stylized version of the Iron Cross, the logo of the German Armed Forces The Iron Cross (German: Eisernes Kreuz) is a military decoration of the Kingdom of Prussia, and later of Germany, which was established by King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia and first awarded on 10 March 1813. ...

It has been speculated, however, that due to the difficult political circumstances – French occupation and later the dependency on less-than-capable Prussian kings – and his relatively early death, which prevented him from seeing the explosive German industrialization in the second half of the 19th century, he did not even live up to the true potential exhibited by his sketches.

External links

• Rand Carter, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, "The Last Great Architect": http://www.tc.umn.edu/~peikx001/rcessay.htm (also used as a reference)