son of Lutheran pastor
with architect David Gilly (1798); with Friedrich and David Gilly and Carl Gotthard Langhans at Berlin Bauakademie (architecture academy, 1799)
1808-15 – produces 45 large-scale panoramas
1813 – collaborates with Frederick William III (King of Prussia) on design of Prussian honorific military medal, the Iron Cross
Rome (1803-04; 1824); London (1826)
Louise (Queen of Prussia); Frederick William III, William I, Frederick
Wiliiam IV (kings of Prussia); Prince Albert (England)
Set designs for Mozart’s Magic Flute, 1815-16
Altes Museum, 1823-30 (architecture, Berlin)
Neues Schauspielhaus, now Konzerthaus, 1819-21 (architect, Berlin)
Bauakademie, 1831-35 (architect, Berlin, destroyed 1961)
Franz Louis Catel, Karl Friedrich Schinkel in Naples, 1824 (Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin)
Saul, Nicholas. The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009
Snodin, Michael. Karl Friedrich Schinkel: a Universal Man. Exhibition catalogue. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991