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    Schinkel : a meander through his life and work / Kurt W. Forster.

    • Title:Schinkel : a meander through his life and work / Kurt W. Forster.
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    • Author/Creator:Forster, Kurt Walter, author.
    • Published/Created:Basel : Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH, [2018]
      ©2018
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Schinkel, Karl Friedrich, 1781-1841--Criticism and interpretation.
      Neoclassicism (Architecture)--Germany.
      Architects--Germany--Biography.
    • Description:411 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 25 cm
    • Summary:The 19th-century German architect and artist, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, was among the great personalities in the world of architecture. Classicism and Romanticism moved towards Modern Architecture in his buildings; his Collection of Architectural Designs led the way to our contemporary understanding of the work of the architect; and as a state master building he shaped the architectural culture of his time. A universal scholar and versatile artist, Schinkel led an intensive, if not boundless exchange with the society and the developments of the 19th century. The (equally) ingenious portrayal by one of the most renowned art and architectural historians of our time displays in richly illustrated thematic chapters the dialogue between Schinkel as a person, his oeuvre and his cultural world.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9783035607789 hardcover
      3035607788 hardcover
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: I. Stroll Through Schinkel's Life
      II. Trials by Fire and Water
      III. Ice, Rocks, and Trees
      Predjama: On the Rocks and in the Bowels of the Earth
      IV. "A Thousand Recollections ... strung ... on a magic thread"
      It is the trees that turned me into an artist"
      V. Panoramic Urban Planning
      VI. Inhabiting the City: Built and Unbuilt Urban Residences
      Loitering, the Grecian Way
      VII. Country Estates, `Leben auf dem Lande'
      Stranger to His Own House
      VIII. Symmetry
      Partial and Impartial
      Bauakademie
      - A Step in the Right Direction?
      IX. Only Things that Stir the Imagination ...
      Day in the Life that Will Kill You
      X. Cultivation of Feeling: Practice without Theory
      Schinkel in Naples
      XI. Architecture in Print: How Schinkel Invented the `Œuvre complete'
      Museum in Movement
      XII. Memorable Encounter: Schinkel and Stendhal at Vauxhall Gardens
      Schinkel's Last Days.
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