Ground Plan of a Cathedral for Berlin
1827
Artist, German, 1781 - 1841

Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite and watercolor on wove paper, laid down on presentation mount
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 27.4 x 15.7 cm (10 13/16 x 6 3/16 in.)
image: 26.1 x 14.4 cm (10 1/4 x 5 11/16 in.) -
Accession
2007.111.34
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Friedrich Wilhelm IV [1795-1861], King of Prussia; presented 20 January 1845 to the Schinkel Museum, Berlin, inventory number S. 202 N.5 (Lugt 2362c); returned 11 February 1845 to the King; Fürstlich Schaumburg-Lippesche Hofbibliothek, Bückeburg, Inv. no. 35384; (sold, Kunsthandel Groth, Berlin, 9 May 1935). Private collection, Berlin, possibly Friedrich Winkler; Eva Dencker-Winkler, Zurich. Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich, 1997. Purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2010
German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 19, 35, 38, no. 72 (reprod. p. 204), under no. 80.
Bibliography
1941
Rave, Paul Ortwin. Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Lebenswerk. Vol. 2. Berlin, Erster Teil: Bauten für die Kunst, Kirchen/Denkmalpflege. Munich, 1941: 228 (fig. 134), 231, no. 49.
1971
Schümann, Carl-Wolfgang. "'In Erwartung des Jüngsten Gerichts.' Zur Ausstattung eines von F. A. Stüler geplanten Berliner Doms." Kunst in Hessen und am Mittelrhein 11 (1971): 86, fig. 1.
1978
Reuther, Hans. Die Museuminsel in Berlin. Berlin, 1978: 170, under no. 30.
1980
Schümann, Carl-Wolfgang. Der Berliner Dom im 19. Jahrhundert. Berlin, 1980: 28, 39, fig. 21.
Inscriptions
signed at lower right in brown ink: Schinkel.; inscribed at top right in graphite: neuer Flügel des Schlosses/Hof/neuer Flügel des Schlosses (new wing of the palace/court); measurements along bottom; verso of presentation mount at bottom left in brown ink, an inv. no.: S. 202. N.2.
Wikidata ID
Q64591870