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Friedrich August Stüler (28 January 1800 – 18 March 1865) was an influentialPrussian architect and builder. His masterpiece is theNeues Museum inBerlin, as well as the dome of the triumphal arch of the main portal of theBerliner Schloss.[1]
Stüler was born on 28 January 1800 inMühlhausen. In 1818 he started studying architecture and became a student ofKarl Friedrich Schinkel in Berlin.[2] After travelling to France and Italy together withEduard Knoblauch in 1829 and 1830 and to Russia together withHeinrich Strack in 1831, Stüler becameHofbauinspektor (Royal Buildings Inspector),Hofbaurat (Royal privy councillor for buildings) and director of the commission for the building of theBerliner Stadtschloss in 1832. In 1837, he planned the rebuilding of theWinter Palace inSaint Petersburg, but failed to realise these plans because TsarNicholas I of Russia decided to rebuild the originalBaroque/Rococo palace instead of StülersNeo-Renaissance concept. Stüler then returned to Berlin, where KingFrederick William IV of Prussia opened a huge array of tasks to him, making himArchitekt des Königs (Royal architect) in 1842.
Together with King Frederick William, who had previously (since his first journey to Italy in 1828) studied Italian architecture, Stüler incorporatedClassical antiquity andRenaissance architecture in what was to becomePrussianArcadia. They also conceived a recourse to early Christian motives such as the liturgy of theEarly church to avoid political problems with the contemporary church. After the death ofLudwig Persius, Stüler assumed control of the building of the Friedenskirche in Potsdam in 1845. Joint journeys to Italy of Stüler and King Frederick William in 1858–59 deepened the Italian influence from medieval and Quattrocento buildings. His ideas forCast-iron architecture or the techniques he used for theNeues Museum are more likely influenced from a journey to England in 1842. The building was badly damaged duringWorld War II, but was reopened in 2009.[3]
Belvedere auf dem Pfingstberg in PotsdamNeue Synagoge in BerlinTheFriedenskirche in PotsdamThe Castle of Schwerin, picture taken from the Schwerin LakeThe National Museum of Fine Arts in Stockholm
While many of the buildings Stüler built were destroyed in World War II, a few were restored – not in the original ways, but one can still see Stülers concepts on the outside, especially in the Jakobi church in Berlin.
Commonly, Stüler is viewed as a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel as well as an architect of his own right, combining the wishes of Frederick William, SchinkelsClassicism and the newHistoricism of the Wilhelminian era, though he didn't refer to himself as a student of Schinkel.
His works were:
1827–1831 probably restoring of the DorfkircheParchen
1837 Planned the restoration of theWinter Palace in Saint Petersburg
^LORENZ, WERNER. "Classicism and High Technology – the Berlin Neues Museum."Construction History 15 (1999): 39–55.http://www.jstor.org/stable/41613794.
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