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Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Roger Hargreaves
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Hardcover. Presents a body of literature on Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Germany's most important 19th-century architect. This work records and assembles material on buildings by Schinkel, one hundred and sixty years after his death, after two world wars and major political upheavals. It is intended to fill the gap by providing the possible compilation. Editor(s): Ibbeken, Hillert; Blauert, Elke. Num Pages: 384 pages, 330ill. BIC Classification: AGB; AMB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 309 x 287 x 39. Weight in Grams: 2886.
Text in German. There is a copious and wide-ranging body of literature on Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Germany's most important 19th-century architect. But there is not a single work that records and assembles material on buildings by Schinkel that are still standing today, one hundred and sixty years after his death, after two world wars and major political upheavals. This volume is intended to fill the gap by providing the fullest possible compilation. It is surprising how many buildings by Schinkel still exist. There are over 170 of them in 112 different places, 62 in Germany and 49 in Poland and Russia, with Berlin and Potsdam each counting as a single location. The picture is very varied as far as the individual buildings are concerned. The churches make up the greatest number: about 86 of them are still standing. Then come 34 museums, theatres, guardhouses, schools and similar buildings, 18 palaces, castles and manor houses, 12 memorials, 12 tombs, 6 interiors and 4 fonts. A glance at a map of the former state of Prussia shows clearly that the buildings are not distributed evenly. In the west, the Rhineland and Westphalia, there were and are relatively few buildings by Schinkel. There is a decided cluster, the first regional concentration, in the present Saxony-Anhalt, between Magdeburg and Weimar. Further to the east come major accumulations in Berlin and Potsdam, and then the Oderbruch in the east of Brandenburg as another cluster. There are also concentrations of buildings by Schinkel in the Posen area as well as in West and East Prussia. Pomerania and Silesia have far fewer. Heinz Schonemann provides an introductory essay about Schinkel in his day, Helmut Borsch-Supan has contributed accounts of the way in which Schinkel's legacy is being handled today. The catalogue texts are by Martina Abri, Elke Blauert, Eva Borsch-Supan, Bernd Evers, Hillert Ibbeken and Heinz Schonemann.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Language
German
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
383
Place of Publication
Fellbach, Germany
ISBN
9783932565250
SKU
V9783932565250
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Ref
99-16
About Roger Hargreaves
Hillert Ibbeken, who had the idea for this project, was professor of geology at the Freie Universitat Berlin until his retirement; he has been involved in architectural photography throughout his life, Elke Blauert is an art historian and works on the academic staff of the Kunstbibliothek in Berlin.
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