KARL

FRIEDRICH

See also:

• KARL FRIEDRICH SCHINKEL (1781—1841)

SCHINKEL (1781—1841)  , German architect and painter, and professor in the academy of fine arts at Berlin from 1820, was born at Neuruppin, in Brandenburg, on the 13th of March 1781 . He was a pupil of Friedrich Gilly, the continuation of whose work he undertook when his master died in 1800 . In 1803 Schinkel went to Italy, returning to Berlin in 18o5 . The Napoleonic wars interfered seriously with his work as architect, so that he took up landscape painting, displaying a talent for the romantic delineation of natural scenery . In 1810 he drew a plan for the mausoleum of Queen Louise and in 1819 a brilliant sketch for the Berlin cathedral in Gothic style . From 18o8 to 1814 he painted a number of dioramas for Gropins . From 1815 he devoted much time to scene painting, examples of his work being still in use in the royal theatres of Germany . Schinkel's principal buildings are in Berlin and its neighbourhood . His merits are, however, best shown in his unexecuted plans for the transformation of the Acropolis into a royal palace, for the erection of the Orianda Palace in the Crimea and for a monument to Frederick the Great . These and other designs may be studied in his Sammlung architektonischer Entwurfe (182o-1837, 3rd ed: 1857—1858) and his Werke der hoheren Baukunst (1845—1846, new ed . 1874) . See the biographies by Kugler, Bottischer, Quast, H .

Grimm, Waagen, Woetmann, Pecht, Dohme, and vol. xxviu. of the Kiinstlermonographie, by Ziller (Leipzig, 1897) .