Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff
Georg Wenzeslaus, baron de Knobelsdorff (born the February 17th 1699 with Crossen year der Oder - died the September 16th 1753 with Berlin) is a painter and a Prussian Architecte of the beginning of the 18th century. One owes him in particular the construction of the Palais of Sanssouci, with Potsdam.
Initially soldier with the service of the Prussian army, it gave up in 1729 his station of Capitaine to devote itself entirely to his passion for the Architecture. In 1740, it went to study with Paris and in Italy with the expenses of the new king, Frederic Large the. As an architect, Knobelsdorff was influenced by the Classicisme with the French , and by the Palladianisme. Its first work, with Rheinsberg (which was the residence of the monarch at the time), enabled him to provide the first foundations of the Rococo frederician, in particular as regards interior decoration.
Knobelsdorff exerted the functions of conservative as a chief of the whole of the royal buildings, and was in addition secretly consulted in financial matters.
Karl Begas created a Statue of Knobelsdorff in 1886. Set up at the beginning in the hall of the Altes Museum, with Berlin, it is today in a deposit of this same institution.
Work
- Extension of the palate of Rheinsberg
- 1743: the national Opera of Berlin (its principal work in the traditional style)
- 1740 - 1742: addition of a wing to the Castle of Charlottenburg
- Starting from 1745: Palate of Sanssouci, under the orders of the king
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