Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Russian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel 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 neogothic buildings. His most famous buildings are found in and around Berlin.

Russian - Architect | March 13, 1781 - October 9, 1841

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Schinkel was not arbitrary in his use of historical modes but rather eclectic in the best sense of the word. He could search the past for its conspicuous successes using them both freely and discursively as the basis for a contemporary architecture.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Schinkel's aesthetic was not a crudely materialistic "truth to material" affair... but rather an attempt to inform iron and other industrial materials with an appropriate beauty through the direct collaboration of the artist in the manufacturing process.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Karl Friedrich Schinkel

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