Friedrich Gilly
Friedrich Gilly (Altdamm at Stettin, February 16, 1772 - Karlsbad, August 3, 1800) was a German architect. He was part of a small group of young architects who discovered the impressive monumentality of the Dorothy around 1790.
Gilly has never visited Italy. Young died, he only showed a glimpse of his enormous talent. This was reflected in two masterpieces: one for a national memorial for Frederik the Great (1797), another for the Berlin National Theater (1798). The powerful volume build-up of this latter is accompanied by strong functional readability. More durable than Ledoux, classic motifs (doric income portfolios, thermal windows) are embedded in plastic articulation.
In the design for Frederik the Great, he placed a peripteros on a pathetic foundation with tight geometric design. The open space around it is being reimburseed by obelisken, a triumphal arch and columns of columns. The whole radiates a funeral magnificence. The Walhalla near Regensburg by Leo von Klenze (1831 - 1842) is fully taxed. In both designs, classical design is elevated by a high-powered context to the sublime.
The way in which Friedrich Gilly had a romantic sensitivity in classical design in his design for the monument of Frederik the Great impressed the sixteen-year-old Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841). It was Gilly convincing him of the statement that architecture must be the materialization of higher ideals. Gilly was, as Schinkel expressed it, the creator of all I am.
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