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Review: Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Geschichte und Poesie and Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Geschichte und Poesie

2014; University of California Press; Volume: 73; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/jsah.2014.73.1.155

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Dietrich Neumann,

Book Review| March 01 2014 Review: Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Geschichte und Poesie and Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Geschichte und Poesie Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Geschichte und Poesie [Karl Friedrich Schinkel: History and Poetics] Kulturforum, Berlin 7 September 2012–6 January 2013Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich 1 February–12 May 2013 Dietrich Neumann Dietrich Neumann 1Brown University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2014) 73 (1): 155–157. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2014.73.1.155 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Dietrich Neumann; Review: Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Geschichte und Poesie and Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Geschichte und Poesie. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 March 2014; 73 (1): 155–157. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2014.73.1.155 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search More than thirty years have passed since the work of Germany’s preeminent nineteenth- century architect, Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841) was presented in a major retrospective in Berlin. In 1981, to mark the two hundredth anniversary of his birth, both parts of the divided city held separate exhibitions. East Berlin made use of the most obvious choice for such an event, Schinkel’s Altes Museum of 1825, and proudly focused on his buildings in the center of Berlin and Potsdam (both part of East Germany at that time), exhibiting a series of large models and architectural drawings. West Berlin’s museums had inherited Schinkel’s paintings, as well as some drawings, furniture, and furnishings, and—nolens volens—focused on those, downplaying his architecture and emphasizing the work of his pupils and followers. The site of the exhibition was the Martin-Gropius-Bau of 1881, designed by one of Schinkel’s students. The recent exhibition, conceived by an... You do not currently have access to this content.