GÄRTNER, Eduard

This old-fashioned view of a mostly old-fashioned Berlin quarter with its eighteenth-century shops is painted in the Dutch mode.

This view of the K�nigsbr�cke shows the theaterlike pavilions still under construction.

This painting is illusionistic in its theatrical sense of sudden confrontation. Guardsmen march in the distance while a servant and her little girl as seen in the foreground of Andreas Schl�ter’s designed Baroque palace, destroyed in World War II.

Schinkel’s architectural aacademy in Berlin, a red brick box, was a functional building that displayed its structure and got by without direct borrowing from historical architecture. It was demolished in 1960.

The genre painters of Berlin were devoid of the sentimental lyricism to be found in the artists of the south. Prussia was at this time rapidly growing in political and economical strength, and it was perhaps the prevailing mood of optimism that encouraged a sense of civic pride and a taste for displaying the new buildings of the city. This can be seen in the elegant streetscapes of Eduard Gärtner.

Prismatic in its definition, the Neoclassical architectural view of Workshop of the Gropius Brothers shows the influential workshop for the city’s theatrical and operatic scene painting, which provided much needed employment for so many of the city’s young artists, including Gärtner, who studied with Carl Gropius.