Twelve lights Schinkel Chandelier

A fine twelve lights chandelier, crowned with two circles of pendants. The chandelier is made of carved silvered and gilded wood and of a tin alloy. It is ornamented with arabesques, flowers, palm leaves, acanthus leaves…

Architect designer : Probably Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841)

There are two other chandeliers in the same spirit, one still at the Château de Glienecke, in Postdam, and the other one, a bigger one, that was at the Château de Sagan.

« Besuche vor dem Untergang », Alvensleben-Koenigswald, 1968, p.216, 217 and depicted p.208-209.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel :

Karl Friedrich Schinkel was born in 1781 in Neuruppin and died in Berlin in 1841. He was a German architect, a painter and a writer. He was Gilly’s student and began his career as a background painter. Schinkel was a firm admirer of Greek architecture and was a key figure in the spreading of the Classical style in Prussia. Promoted chief architect of Berlin, he built the Nouvelle Garde(1816-1818), along with the Theater (1818-1821) and the Ancien Musée (1824-1828). These achievements put into highlighting his acute assimilation of Antic architecture and also his vision of greatness.

In many of his works, he showed a keen interest in the Gothic style.

Bibliography :

• « Lichter Leuchten im Abendland », kurt Jarmuth, ed. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Brauschweig.

• « Karl Friedrich Schinkel , Architektur Malerei Kunstgewerbe », Orangerie des Schlosses Charlottenburg, 13 Märs bis 13 September 1981 ;

• « Preusen kunst und Arcitektur », Gert Streidt, Peter Freierabend, Köln, 1999.

• « Karl Friedrich Schinkel », Johannes Sievers, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin.