Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Prussian architect, city planner and painter (1781–1841)
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He gave Berlin its face. Schinkel turned Prussia's capital into a neoclassical stage set in stone, and his Altes Museum became the template every national gallery since has quietly copied.
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Karl Friedrich Schinkel was born on 13 March 1781 in Prussia and trained as an architect, painter, and designer across disciplines — furniture, stage sets, city plans. He rose to lead both the Neoclassical and Gothic Revival movements in nineteenth-century Germany, shaping Berlin's streets and skyline with a precision that made him one of the greatest architects his country produced. His Altes Museum stands as one of Europe's most important classical buildings, a prototype that national art museums worldwide would follow. The Bauakademie, another of his Berlin works, is considered a forerunner…
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