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ANDREAS SCHLUTER (1664-1714)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 343 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCHLUTER (1664-1714)  , See also:Gentian sculptor and architect, was See also:born in See also:Hamburg . Much of his activity as a sculptor was exercised in See also:Warsaw, but in 1694 he was summoned to See also:Berlin . Two years later he began his designs for the rebuilding of the royal See also:palace . The See also:execution of these occupied him from 1699 to 1706, and the palace became a conspicuous example of barocco See also:style in See also:Germany . In 1713 See also:Schluter went to St See also:Peters-See also:burg, where he did architectural See also:work for See also:Peter the See also:Great . His See also:principal See also:works in Berlin are the See also:monument of the great elector See also:Frederick See also:William and the 21 masks of dying warriors in the courtyard of the See also:arsenal; the tombs of See also:King Frederick I. and his wife, and the See also:marble See also:pulpit in the Marienkirche . See C . Gurlitt, Andreas Schluter (1891); C . F. von Kloeden, Andreas Schluter (1855) .

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