Wilhelm Johann Karl Zahn (21 August 1800, Rodenberg, Schaumburg – 22 August 1871, Berlin) was a German architect, painter and art critic.
Biography
He became professor in the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin, 1829. He superintended excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii; cast the finest bronzes and silver vases for the Museum Borbonico; and was architect of many fine houses and villas in Pompeiian style in England and the United States.
Works
The Most Beautiful Ornaments and the Most Notable Pictures from Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiæ (1828–30)
Ornaments of All Classical Periods of Art (1832–39)
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References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Zahn, Johann Karl Wilhelm". Encyclopedia Americana.
Alfred Gotthold Meyer (1898), "Zahn, Wilhelm Johann Karl", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 44, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 668–670
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