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Carl Gotthard Langhans was a Prussian builder and architect. His works are among the earliest buildings in the German classicism movement. His best-known work is the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. It was commissioned by King Frederick William II of Prussia as a sign of peace and built from 1788 to 1791.

Langhans was not educated as an architect. He studied law from 1753 to 1757 in Halle, and then mathematics and languages, and engaged himself autodidactically with architecture, at which he concentrated primarily on the antique texts of the Roman architecture theorist Vitruvius and the new version by the classics enthusiast Johann Joachim Winckelmann....
 
 
Carl Gotthard Langhans was a Prussian builder and architect. His works are among the earliest buildings in the German classicism movement. His best-known work is the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. It was commissioned by King Frederick William II of Prussia as a sign of peace and built from 1788 to 1791.

Langhans was not educated as an architect. He studied law from 1753 to 1757 in Halle, and then mathematics and languages, and engaged himself autodidactically with architecture, at which he concentrated primarily on the antique texts of the Roman architecture theorist Vitruvius and the new version by the classics enthusiast Johann Joachim Winckelmann.... More • http://en.wikipedia. ... d_Langhans View • BooksImagesVideosSearch Related • ArchitectsArchitectureBerlinGermanyIndustrial Revolution18th CenturyPeople

 
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