Schinkel, KARL FRIEDRICH

Schinkel, KARL FRIEDRICH, a German architect, was born at Neuruppin in Brandenburg, March 13, 1781, and studied the principles of drawing and design at Berlin. In May 1811 he was elected a member of, and in 1820 a professor at, the Berlin Royal Academy. He died October 9, 1841. The designs to which he chiefly owes his reputation are those of the Museum, the Royal Guard-house, the Memorial of the War of Liberation, the New Theatre, the New Potsdam Gate, the Observatory, the Artillery and Engineers' School, all in Berlin, the Casino in Potsdam, another at Glienicke near Potsdam, and a great number of castles, country-houses, churches, and public buildings. His designs are classic in feeling, noble, harmonious, and dignified. He also excelled as a painter, and as a designer of monuments and of furniture. His designs and sketches were published in Sammlung architektonischer Entwürfe (174 plates, 1857-58), Werke der höheren Baukunst (25 plates, 1873), Grundlage der praktischen Baukunst (2 vols. 1835), and Sammlung von Möbelentwürfen (16 plates, 1852). See Life by Kugler (1842), by Quast (1866), and by Dohme (1882).