Karl Friedrich Schinkel's life's work

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The Karl Friedrich Schinkel life's work is the art historian Paul Ortwin Rave initiated multi-volume and strictly source-based overview of the complete works of Karl Friedrich Schinkel .

Reason and goal

The series currently comprises 22 volumes. The aim was and is to develop the entire topographically diversified oeuvre of Schinkel as a master builder, art theorist, painter, draftsman, set designer and designer. Schinkel's 150th birthday on March 13, 1931 was the external reason for the establishment of his life's work. The project was largely supported by the Prussian Finance Minister Johannes Popitz and the Academy of Building, which is under his control.

execution

The implementation of the ambitious project was in the hands of the Schinkel Committee of the Academy, chaired by the Ministerialrat in the Prussian Ministry of Finance, Conrad Dammeier. As so-called editor, Rave was responsible for the publication of the life's work and for drawing up the work plan, who himself also contributed several volumes to the series. A first test print of the life's work appeared in 1934 in the magazine 'Deutsche Kunst und Denkmalpflege' with an article by Georg Poensgen about the New Pavilion . In 1935, the specialist colleagues that Rave had recruited to deal with the individual topics were made known to the public as part of a comprehensive Schinkel bibliography. In the following year, the art historian Johannes Sievers delivered a sample print for his life's work with a contribution about the palace of Prince August of Prussia. Sievers had already submitted a small paper on the palace of Prince Karl of Prussia in 1928 and, with four volumes, was to become one of the main authors of the life's work series.

The series was initially divided into two departments. The first was supposed to encompass Schinkel's architectural work in and outside Prussia and was changed in 1941 so that the two should be treated separately. The second section was to cover the subjects of 'The Painter', 'Arts and Crafts and Sculptor's Drafts', 'Art Education and Art Research', 'Travel' and 'Life' in five volumes. However, this structure was also repeatedly modified. Caused by the events of the war, Rave and his colleagues had to cope with some setbacks. Print-ready volumes were destroyed and authors lost their archive material. Due to the end of the war, the occupation and division of Germany, Rave was faced with even greater problems in terms of continuing his life's work. Despite all adversities, it was possible to have a further seven volumes published after 1945 until Rave's death.

After Rave's death in 1962, Margarete Kühn took over the editing of the life's work. She did not publish her volume until 1989, however. The series is currently being edited by Helmut Börsch-Supan and Gottfried Riemann.

Sample publication for Schinkel's life's work from 1936. Johannes Sievers: The palace of Prince August of Prussia.

The Karl Friedrich Schinkel life's work is a unique honor in Germany in terms of type and scope for a single artist. The fact that work on this series is still ongoing, the volume 'Kunstgewerbe' is in progress, shows the unbroken charisma and importance of Schinkel's oeuvre.

Single volumes

  • Volume 1, 1939: Potsdam. State and civil buildings (Hans Kania)
  • Volume 2, 1941: Silesia (Günther Grundmann)
  • Volume 3, 1941: Berlin (Part 1) (Paul Ortwin Rave)
  • Volume 4, 1942: Buildings for Prince Karl of Prussia (Johannes Sievers)
  • Volume 5, 1948: Berlin (Part 2) (Paul Ortwin Rave)
  • Volume 6, 1950: The Furniture (Johannes Sievers)
  • Volume 7, 1952: Pomerania (Hans Vogel)
  • Volume 8, 1954: The buildings for Princes August, Friedrich and Albrecht of Prussia (Johannes Sievers)
  • Volume 9, 1956: The buildings for Prince Wilhelm, later King of Prussia (Johannes Sievers)
  • Volume 10, 1960: Mark Brandenburg, (Hans Kania / Hans-Herbert Möller)
  • Volume 11, 1962: Berlin (Part 3) (Paul Ortwin Rave)
  • Volume 12, 1968: The Rhineland (Eva Brües / EWGrashoff)
  • Volume 13, 1969: Westphalia (Ludwig Schreiner)
  • Volume 14: 1979: The architectural textbook (Goerd Peschken)
  • Volume 15, 1989: Buildings and designs for foreign countries (Margarete Kühn)
  • Volume 16, 1990: The trip to France and England in 1826 (Reinhard Wegner)
  • Volume 17, 2000: The stage designs (Ulrike Harten)
  • Volume 18, 2003: The provinces of East and West Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Poznan (Eva Börsch-Supan)
  • Volume 19, 2006: Travels to Italy 1803–1805 and 1824, (Georg Friedrich Koch)
  • Volume 20, 2007: Image Inventions (Helmut Börsch-Supan)
  • Volume 21, 2011: Works for Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia and Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (IV.) (Eva Börsch-Supan)
  • Volume 22, 2014: The Prussian Province of Saxony (M.Abri / Eva Börsch-Supan et al.)

literature

  • Johannes Sievers: From my life. Berlin 1966 (printed as typescript).
  • Paul Ortwin Rave: Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Supplement to the literature of German art, Berlin 1935.
  • Helmut Börsch-Supan: Contemporary experience and historical research. In: Karl Friedrich Schinkel. History and poetry. The study book. Berlin 2012.