Carl Wilhelm Gropius
Paintings
Berlin, in the church square, country house of the family Gabain
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Karl Wilhelm Gropius (Carl Wilhelm Gropius, born April 4, 1793 in Braunschweig; † February 20, 1870 in Berlin) was a German painter.
Gropius learned in Berlin at Karl Friedrich Schinkel andscape paintings. In Paris he learned the invented by Louis Daguerre and Charles Marie Bouton diorama. He also traveled to Italy and Greece and brought a number of views with which he used in his 1827 opened diorama. Later he turned to decorative painting and worked since 1819 as court theater painter for the Berlin stage. In this capacity he designed, among other things sets the stage for the world premiere of Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber for the theater at Gendarmenmarkt.
The fruits of his journeys, a collection of views from different areas, he published in 1846 in twelve booklets . A collection of his ornaments in various architectural styles appeared 1846.
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