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Karl Friedrich Schinkel, (born March 13, 1781, near Brandenburg, Brandenburg—died Oct. 9, 1841, Berlin), German architect and painter whose Romantic–Classical creations in other related arts made him the leading arbiter of national aesthetic taste in his lifetime.

Schinkel, Karl Friedrich (1781–1841). Prussian architect, the greatest in Germany in the first half of C19. He was not only an architect of genius, but a civil servant, intellectual, painter, stage-designer, producer of panoramas, and gifted draughtsman. His output was prodigious, and his stylistically eclectic work was lyrical and logical.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel (13 March 1781 – 9 October 1841) was a Prussian architect, city planner and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schinkel was one of the most prominent architects of Germany and designed both Neoclassical and neo-Gothic buildings.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel (b. Neuruppin, 1781–d. Berlin, 1841) was a celebrated Prussian architect, theatre set designer, artist, furniture and object designer, urban planner, and civil servant.

After several strokes and a year of ailments and afflictions, Karl Friedrich Schinkel died on 9 th October 1841. He was buried on 12 October at the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery on the Chausseestraße. His final resting place, and also designed by him, is now a grave of honor of the State of Berlin.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841) - Architectural Review. Since 1896, The Architectural Review has scoured the globe for architecture that challenges and inspires. Buildings old and new are chosen as prisms through which arguments and broader narratives are constructed.

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Armchair. Designer Karl Friedrich Schinkel German. Possibly made by Johann Christian Sewining. Possibly made by Karl Wanschaff German. ca. 1828. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 553. Between 1826 and 1828, at the height of his influence as Germany's leading architect and most sought-after designer, Karl Friedrich Schinkel was ...