Main entry:

Watkin, David, 1941-2018.

Title & Author:

German Architecture and the Classical Ideal / David Watkin, Tilman Mellinghoff.

Edition:

1st MIT Press ed.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1987.

Description:

296 pages : illustrations (some color), map, plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-284).
[Table of Contents] -- PART ONE: HISTORY, PATRONAGE AND STYLE -- I. The German Reality: the historical, political and cultural background -- II. The Impact of France and England: 1740-90 -- III. A Style for a Nation -- IV. Karl Friedrich Schinkel -- V. Neo-classicism in North Germany: 1818-45 -- VI. Leo von Klenze -- VII. Neo-classicism in South Germany: 1815-45 -- Postscript -- PART TWO: GAZETTER OF NEO-CLASSICAL BUILDINGS -- Map -- Bibliography -- Photographic acknowledgments -- Index.

Summary:

"German Classicism is a powerful architectural force that is only now being fully studied. As this extensively illustrated book shows, palaces, private houses, public buildings, and urban planning all received patronage on a scale that could not be paralleled in other countries. Of the host of architects whose genius was given such superb opportunities in the years 1740 to 1840, only Karl Friedrich Schinkel's name has become widely known; yet, this book points out, all over Germany rulers were dramatically transforming their capitals, and the achievements of Weinbrenner at Karlsruhe, Moller at Darmstadt, or Klenze at Munich are by any standards astonishing. The first part of the book provides a historical account that sets German Neo-classicism in its regional and political context, and notes the impact of France and England and the Franco-Prussian style before Schinkel. It discusses Schinkel's own work, that of Leo von Klenze, and Neo-classicism in North and South Germany. The book's second part consists of an index of buildings. Here every important Neo-classical building (both existing and destroyed) is listed and described under its location. The index is an invaluable source of information available nowhere else in English. With 263 illustrations, 9 in color" -- Dust Jacket.

ISBN:

0262231255
9780262231251

Subject:

Neoclassicism (Architecture) Germany.
Architecture Germany History 18th century.
Architecture Germany History 19th century.
Architecture Germany 18th century.
Architecture Germany 19th century.
Architecture Germany.
Néoclassicisme (Architecture) Allemagne.
Architecture Allemagne 17e siècle.
Architecture Allemagne 18e siècle.
Architecture Allemagne 19e siècle.
Architecture Allemagne.
Architecture
Neoclassicism (Architecture)
Neoclassicisme.
Bouwkunst.
Architecture, Modern Germany History.
Architecture, Modern 19th century Germany.
Germany
01030 Germany 11030 architecture 1740-1840
Architecture, Modern 17th-18th centuries Germany
Architecture, Modern 19th century y Germany

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Mellinghoff, Tilman.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 184312
Call No.: ID:86-B22455
Status: Available