ARCH 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Neue Wache, Altes Museum
28 Mar 2019
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Prussia (germany: karl friedrich schinkel (1817-1841, employed in the prussian public works office, architecture, means to foster civic consciousness, greek classicism. Ideal symbolic language: berlin developed as capital of prussia since 1701. In 1871, german states would be united to create the german empire under. Karl friedrich schinkel: neue wache = royal guard house: berlin, germany 1817-1818, doric portico, figures of winged victories (nikai) on frieze, pediment shows allegorical representations of battle, victory, flight, and. Defeat: 1930-1931, monument to soldiers killed in war i, 1960, memorial to the victims of fascism and militarism, 1993, dedicated to the memory of all victims of war and dictatorship. Interior rotunda is reference to the ancient roman temple, the pantheon. Neoclassicism in the u. s: thomas jefferson (1743-1826, writer of declaration of independence, third president of the country, statesman, philosopher, scientist, educator, economist, inventor, and gentleman architect, personification of the renaissance ideal of an educated man.
