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Karl Friedrich Schinkel



 

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

(b Neuruppin, Mark Brandenburg, 13 March 1781; d Berlin, 9 Oct 1841).

German architect, painter and stage designer. He was the greatest architect in 19th-century Germany, and his most important surviving buildings in Berlin  and Potsdam show his sense of German idealism and technical mastery. He became Geheimer Oberlandesbaudirektor of the Prussian state and influenced many architects in Germany and abroad.

 

Study for a Monument to Queen Louise
1810
Watercolour, 720 x 520 mm