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See also:SCHINKEL, KARL See also:FRIEDRICH (1781—1841) , See also:German architect and painter, and See also:professor in the See also:academy of See also:fine arts at See also:Berlin from 1820, was See also:born at Neuruppin, in See also:Brandenburg, on the 13th of See also:March 1781. He was a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of Friedrich Gilly, the continuation of whose See also:work he undertook when his See also:master died in 1800. In 1803 Schinkel went to See also:Italy, returning to Berlin in 18o5. The See also:Napoleonic See also:wars interfered seriously with his work as architect, so that he took up landscape See also:painting, displaying a See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent for the romantic delineation of natural scenery. In 1810 he See also:drew a See also:plan for the See also:mausoleum of See also:Queen See also:Louise and in 1819 a brilliant See also:sketch for the Berlin See also:cathedral in See also:Gothic See also:style. From 18o8 to 1814 he painted a number of dioramas for Gropins. From 1815 he devoted much See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to See also:scene painting, examples of his work being still in use in the royal theatres of See also:Germany. Schinkel's See also:principal buildings are in Berlin and its neighbourhood. His merits are, however, best shown in his unexecuted plans for the transformation of the See also:Acropolis into a royal See also:palace, for the erection of the Orianda Palace in the See also:Crimea and for a See also:monument to See also:Frederick the See also:Great. These and other designs may be studied in his Sammlung architektonischer Entwurfe (182o-1837, 3rd ed: 1857—1858) and his Werke der hoheren Baukunst (1845—1846, new ed. 1874).
See the See also:biographies by Kugler, Bottischer, Quast, H. See also:Grimm, See also:Waagen, Woetmann, Pecht, Dohme, and vol. xxviu. of the Kiinstlermonographie, by Ziller (See also:Leipzig, 1897).
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