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Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Stage set designs for Mozart’s Magic Flute

Drouot Auctions, Berlin

Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781 — 1841), was German, an architect and a painter, whose Romantic–Classical creations in other related arts, made him the leading arbiter of national aesthetic taste in his lifetime.  The son of an archdeacon, Karl Friedrich studied architecture with the brilliant Friedrich Gilly (1798–1800) and at Berlin’s Academy of Architecture (1800–02), which learnings he hone with ‘huing’ his style for several years in Italy.  When he returned to Berlin, via Paris in 1805, he became a painter.  He designed furniture for Queen Louise in 1809 that, with its rich, light-coloured pearwood, play of matched grains, became simplified to a naturalistic romantic form that in its classical milieu, anticipated the forthcoming Biedermeier period.