View of the Berlin Observatory (now demolished) showing the principal façade and the dome, between Lindenstraße and Friedrichstraße, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany

People:

Unknown (photographer)
Frederick William III, King of Prussia (patron)
Karl Friedrich Schinkel (architect)
Johann Franz Encke (director)

Title:

View of the Berlin Observatory (now demolished) showing the principal façade and the dome, between Lindenstraße and Friedrichstraße, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany

Date:

before 1939

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 23.7 x 36.4 cm

Reference number:

PH1982:0720

Point of View:

exterior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Restoration work has been done on the u.l. of the composition, visible as a whitish brown substance.

Inscription:

numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, u.l.: "30"

Location:

Kreuzberg; Berlin; Germany;

Subject:

architecture
sculpture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

trees
reliefs
figures (representations)
domes
city
buildings
tympanum
observatory

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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