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In Western architecture: Germany …he called to Berlin were Carl Gotthard Langhans and David Gilly, who, with Heinrich Gentz, created a severe but inventive style in the 1790s that was indebted to Ledoux as well as to Johann Winckelmann’s call for a return to the spirit of ancient Greek architecture. The great early monument… Read More

Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732–1808) was a Prussian master builder and royal architect. He is the architect of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, a major German landmark. For many years Langhans was the head of the building authority of the Prussian province of Silesia (now Poland).

Carl Gotthard Langhans (* 15. Dezember 1732 in Landeshut, Schlesien; † 1. Oktober 1808 in Grüneiche bei Breslau) war ein deutscher Baumeister und zählt zu den bedeutendsten Architekten Berlins. Seine Werke gehören zu den frühesten Bauten des Klassizismus in Deutschland. Sein bekanntestes Werk ist das Brandenburger Tor in Berlin . Inhaltsverzeichnis

A master of several different styles, the Silesian builder Carl Gotthard Langhans was one of the greatest architects in Germany to move away from Baroque architecture and adopt the new idiom of Neoclassical architecture, which was later popularized in Prussia by his successor Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841).

It was designed by Carl Gotthard Langhans, the Court Superintendent of Buildings, and built between 1788 and 1791, replacing the earlier simple guardhouses which flanked the original gate in the Customs Wall. The gate consists of twelve Doric columns, six to each side, forming five passageways.

Website der Carl-Gotthard-Langhans-Gesellschaft Berlin e.V. Ziele der Gesellschaft sind Pflege, Würdigung, öffentliche Vermittlung, wissenschaftliche Erforschung und Popularisierung von Leben und Werk des Architekten und Baumeisters Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732–1808), Erbauer des Brandenburger Tores zu Berlin.