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5%OFFIbbeken H - Schinkel, Persius, Stüler - Buildings in Berlin and Potsdam - 9783936681727 - V9783936681727
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Schinkel, Persius, Stüler - Buildings in Berlin and Potsdam

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Description for Schinkel, Persius, Stüler - Buildings in Berlin and Potsdam Hardcover. Num Pages: 144 pages, 120 illus. BIC Classification: AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 302 x 286 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1342.
Text in English & German. This book is a synopsis, a summary of the books also published by Edition Axel Menges about the Prussian architects Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841), Ludwig Persius (1803-1845) and Friedrich August Stüler (1800-1865), but it covers only the works of these architects in Berlin and Potsdam. The three books mentioned above are subtitled 'The architectural work today'; in other words, they are exclusively about buildings that still exist. This is also true of the present selection. The question whether this selection and limitation to Berlin and Potsdam is representative of the work of the three architects can clearly be answered in the affirmative. For Persius this question does not even arise, because during his short life he worked almost exclusively in Potsdam and its immediate vicinity -- he was the 'King's architect'. Stüler's work is found in a region extending from Cologne on the Rhine to Masuria, with some important buildings in Stockholm and Budapest as well. About a quarter of his works can be found in Potsdam and Berlin, where Stüler, too, was the 'King's architect'. The truly gigantic lifework of Schinkel extends from Aachen to St Petersburg. Berlin and Potsdam have about a third of his works. It can be confidently said, however, that those who know the works of Schinkel, Persius and Stüler in Berlin and Potsdam also know the architect's work as a whole in each case. Since the pictures assembled here were taken between 1998 and 2005, they themselves have already become somewhat historical.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges
Language
German
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Fellbach, Germany
ISBN
9783936681727
SKU
V9783936681727
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About Ibbeken H
Until his retirement Hillert Ibbeken was a professor of geology at the Freie Universität Berlin, but his lifelong occupation has been architectural photography. Barry Bergdoll studied at Columbia University in New York and at King's College of Cambridge University, England. He is professor of architectural history at Columbia University and the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His special interest is in the architecture of France and Germany since the middle of the 18th century.

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