ABSTRACT
A forceful and multifaceted cultural figure in early nineteenth century Prussia, Karl Friedrich Schinkel had varied involvements reaching beyond architecture into the areas of civil service, painting, stage-set design, panorama entrepreneurship, and surveying. The screen reaches full maturity at Schinkel's Altes Museum in Berlin. Schinkel not only intentionally deploys the several components but sensitively coordinates their weights and interactions. Intense repetition appeared early and intriguingly with Schinkel. In his first independent commission, an 1801–1803 outbuilding for Neu harden berg's Palace, he arrays 15 arched bays. The Museum was to be one step in defining a new urban nexus for Berlin, a square bringing together and ennobling a series of important buildings. The site was an open zone of pleasure gardens and parade grounds adjacent to a side of the Berlin Palace. Dialectical attitudes were becoming widespread in Germany, impacting many endeavors.
