Entwurf zu dem Kaiserlichen Palast Orianda in der Krimm
Schinkel, Karl Friedrich
Berlin. Verlag von Ernst & Korn. 1873
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Very rare collection of Schinkel's fantastic 'Higher Architecture' designs for the Russian Imperial Crimean pleasure palace Orianda.
The large format plates provide colour views of the interior and exterior of the palace, the facades, sections and ground plans, analysis of the portico and caryatids, the atrium, the Crimean/Caucasian Museum and the Temple. The imaginitive views are depicted in colour and the technical drawings, sections and facades are monochrome or tinted.
Commissioned by the Czarina Alexandra as a pleasure palace on a promontory in the Crimea overlooking the Black Sea (Schinkel was most likely referred to the Russian Imperial family by the Czarina's brother, the Crown Prince of Prussia), Schinkel's original designs for a Russian-inspired castle were rejected on the basis that the Czarina wanted something 'in der Art von Siam', Siam being the name given by her brother to Charlottenhof. Schinkel completely revised his designs and was inspired to create a unique style of lasting importance. Despite Schinkel's work and inspiration the Imperial Court was unmoved and uninterested; Schinkel was rewarded with a mother-of-pearl box and died shortly afterward.
These designs were first published in the Werke der höheren Baukunst (1840 - 1842), published largely posthumously but undertaken with Schinkel's initial supervision (he died in 1841). The designs were published separately for the first time in 1862 and, as here, in 1873. The separate publication of the designs is an indication of the continued importance of Schinkel as an architect and his inspired vision for this, albeit unrealised, project.
'At Orianda, Schinkel wished to achieve an effect commensurate with the site, a lofty rocky promontory on the shores of the Black Sea ... In the final scheme Schinkel produced for Orianda a unique style composed of classical and exotic forms, gold and mosaic decoration, and the extensive use of semiprecious stones quarried in the region, which he said would reflect 'the Asiatic-Scythian, half barbaric character of this region in Antiquity'.' (Dr. Rand Carter - 'Karl Friedrich Schinkel: The Last Great Architect').
[Not in Berlin; not in Millard; not in Brunet; not in Weinreb].
The large format plates provide colour views of the interior and exterior of the palace, the facades, sections and ground plans, analysis of the portico and caryatids, the atrium, the Crimean/Caucasian Museum and the Temple. The imaginitive views are depicted in colour and the technical drawings, sections and facades are monochrome or tinted.
Commissioned by the Czarina Alexandra as a pleasure palace on a promontory in the Crimea overlooking the Black Sea (Schinkel was most likely referred to the Russian Imperial family by the Czarina's brother, the Crown Prince of Prussia), Schinkel's original designs for a Russian-inspired castle were rejected on the basis that the Czarina wanted something 'in der Art von Siam', Siam being the name given by her brother to Charlottenhof. Schinkel completely revised his designs and was inspired to create a unique style of lasting importance. Despite Schinkel's work and inspiration the Imperial Court was unmoved and uninterested; Schinkel was rewarded with a mother-of-pearl box and died shortly afterward.
These designs were first published in the Werke der höheren Baukunst (1840 - 1842), published largely posthumously but undertaken with Schinkel's initial supervision (he died in 1841). The designs were published separately for the first time in 1862 and, as here, in 1873. The separate publication of the designs is an indication of the continued importance of Schinkel as an architect and his inspired vision for this, albeit unrealised, project.
'At Orianda, Schinkel wished to achieve an effect commensurate with the site, a lofty rocky promontory on the shores of the Black Sea ... In the final scheme Schinkel produced for Orianda a unique style composed of classical and exotic forms, gold and mosaic decoration, and the extensive use of semiprecious stones quarried in the region, which he said would reflect 'the Asiatic-Scythian, half barbaric character of this region in Antiquity'.' (Dr. Rand Carter - 'Karl Friedrich Schinkel: The Last Great Architect').
[Not in Berlin; not in Millard; not in Brunet; not in Weinreb].
Large folio. (c.950 x 675 mm). Leaf with printed title and 14 large lithograph plates, seven in magnificent colour, 4 tinted and 3 in monochrome after designs by Schinkel. Plates printed on thick paper, sheet size: c.865 x 610 mm (or the reverse). Loose as issued in later portfolio, original blue paper wrappers retained, front wrapper mounted to front board of portfolio.
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