Gilly & Schinkel and Athens on the Spree: Berlin Architecture 1790-1840

Art Historian Barry Bergdoll presents a video lecture on the legacy of two German architects who were instrumental to the development of Berlin during a crucial period from the late 18th century to the mid 19th century.
About the Program:
The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) hosted this lecture on July 15th, 2020. Watch free live and prerecorded lectures by visiting our website, www.classicist... .
In 1789, as French citoyens attacked the medieval fortified castle-turned-prison at the edge of the French capital, the Hohenzollern monarchy in Prussia responded by breaching the city wall of its capital, to create an image of the ancient propylaeum entrance to Berlin, the Brandenburg Gate. For the next half century, until the death of Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1841, a modest courtly city was to be changed into a stage for a new negotiation between public and power, as Berlin fashioned itself as the "Spreeathen", or Athens on the Spree River.
Berlin neo-classicism quickly emerged not only as a national project but as rethinking of the very training of a new architectural profession, one whose role would extend not only to the expansion of the Prussian state after the final defeat of Napoleon, but to an expanding market for architecture among a growing class of merchants and industrialists. This lecture will focus on the Berlin School from Carl Gotthard Langhans and the Gillys, father and son, to Schinkel.
About the Speaker:
Barry Bergdoll is a specialist in late 18th and 19th century French and German architecture, and the author of numerous works on the period, including the textbook European Architecture 1750-1890 in the Oxford History of Art series. He is also the author of the introduction to the recent ICAA publication The Complete Works of Percier and Fontaine, published in partnership with Princeton Architectural Press. He is Professor of Art History at Columbia University and former Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art.
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[@Berlin-Videos]

A fantastic lecture that also gave me, as a professional tour guide in Berlin, many new perspectives and a deeper understanding of Schinkel and his work. Thank you very much

[@afrosymphony8207]

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[@krzesimirjagieo3588]

(37:30) I would like to correct part of the lecture refereeing to Marienburg as a monastery in Silesia, in actuality it is a Castle of the Teutonic Order located in the Province of West Prussia
(Current administrative region - Pomeranian Voivodeship)

[@LamiNalchor]

Fascinating; that is true.

[@dagmarvandoren9364]

And now Poland claimed it. Saying it was Poland anyway. Thanks you to our friends

[@gc-tm1tv]

Fantastic lecture. Re:Your quip on Boris Johnson, he can actually speak Greek - he does know these things of which you speak.

[@marcotrombetta4278]

great!

[@emrage]

Thoroughly enjoyed this. A mechanical designer I often find myself fascinated with all aspects of design and reason/justification behind them so this was gold. If anyone’s interested a follow up video of renaissance architecture
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[@markberlin6608]

Frederick II. had no offspring.He was succeeded by his nephew Frederick William II.

[@Alterfritz1763]

Professor Bergdoll is a brilliant archtiectural historian, but his grasp of politcal history is shaky. The Prussian king who had the Brandenburg Gate built was not Frederick William III, but his father, Frederick William II. And Prussia did not "expand through wars and conquest" under Frederick I and Frederick William I (it didn't expand at all in their time). It's actually in that time that the common saying spread that "The Prussians aren't so quick to shoot." Frederick the Great was the first Prussian king to expand the kingdom by military and diplomatic means.

[@dagmarvandoren9364]

But now. The bombs....i hate war......

[@LamiNalchor]

A great lecture. I am German, but absolutely dislike Schinkel.

[@dagmarvandoren9364]

That's sad. Soblets have more ugly archtecture....like forever 4?

[@LamiNalchor]

@@dagmarvandoren9364 Pardon me?

[@ZwavelAzijn]

And the area looks like trash now..