Babelsberg Castle_Prom Hall-Karl Greber-Prints and Hangings

【Picture 1-Picture 6 are the original pictures】 [Figure 7 is a bird's-eye view of Schloss Babelsberg today] Author: Carl Graeb (1816~1884) Name: [Babelsberg Castle Ball Hall]: From [Babelsberg Castle: Twelve Watercolors] (Schloss Babelsberg. Zwölf Aquarelle) the eighth. Signature: None (Potsdam, Ferdinand Riegel Verlag). Technique: Color lithograph. Year: 1853. Dimensions: paper 54 x 41 / picture 40 x 30 / paper jam 50 x 70 cm. (BO 083-9) Remarks: with double-layer cardboard mounting (without frame) This color lithograph, from the [Babelsberg Castle: Twelve Watercolors] atlas, records the inside and outside scenery of Schloss Babelsberg (Schloss Babelsberg). The castle was built in 1833~1849 and was completed in two stages. It was the summer residence of Prince William of Prussia (Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig, 1797~1888). In 1829, William and Augusta Katharina (Augusta Marie Luise Katharina, 1811~1890) were married. The then King of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm III (1770~1840) funded his second son in Potsdam ( Potsdam’s Babelsberg district was built by the well-known neoclassical architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel (Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1781~1841) in charge of the design, due to the popular Gothic retro style in Europe at that time The design is based on the Gothic style. In this period of German Romanticism, the castle symbolized the whole of Germany, and William's wife Augusta was obsessed with the British Gothic style, and she specialized in research on her own, which conflicted with the architect Schenkeldor in design. However, in the end, due to insufficient funds, only part of the overall design of the castle was completed. In October 1835, the first stage was completed. The neo-Gothic French windows introduced a lot of light, allowing you to enjoy the surrounding scenery. In addition, it also included an octagonal building as a restaurant. In 1840, Friedrich Wilhelm IV (1795~1861), who was enthroned as king, had no children, so his younger brother William became the prince. His residence in Babelsberg seemed shabby and not decent enough. As a result, the original design continued to be implemented, but Schenkel passed away in 1841, and his disciple Pasius (Friedrich Ludwig Persius, 1803 ~1845) continued the construction work, but still disagrees with Princess Augusta on the implementation. , In the end can only yield. A two-story ballroom appeared. The original octagonal building was restored as a refreshment salon. In addition to many rooms for children, a hall-shaped restaurant was added to the new west side, and finally a majestic tower was added. After Pahieus died, (Johann Heinrich Strack, 1805~1880), the overall project was finished. At least, his architectural ideas were in line with the taste of Princess Augusta. In October 1849, Babelsberg Castle was completed. In 1861, William became King William I of Prussia. In 1871, after the Franco-Prussian War, he became the first emperor of the German Empire. On September 22, 1862, William I received Otto von Bismarck (Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, 1815~1898) in Babelsberg. He negotiated the state, and finally appointed Bismarck as prime minister. A new chapter in German history. Before William's death, he lived in Babelsberg Castle. In 1907, it was originally planned to be expanded so that it could be used by Wilhelm von Preußen (1882~1951), the last crown prince of the German Empire, but it was finally abandoned. Today here, together with Potsdam and Berlin palaces and parks, are included in the World Cultural Heritage List. In the 1840s, King William IV and Queen of Prussia commissioned the artist Carl Georg Anton Graeb (1816 ~ 1884) to paint the architectural scenery of Potsdam, its suburbs, and Charlottenburg. There were 94 pictures, including 12 views of Babelsberg Castle. Greber was a German romantic landscape master in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was a student of Carl Eduard Ferdinand Blechen (1798 ~ 1840), a professor at the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts. Johann Gerst (Johann Gerst, 1792~1854) studied painting. In 1838, he became a theater painter at the Königsallen Stadt Theater in Berlin, but fourteen months later, he traveled all over Europe for four years, exhibiting his works from time to time during his travels. In 1844, he returned to Berlin and opened a theater decoration painting workshop with his father-in-law until he was appointed court painter in 1851. In 1853, the Ferdinand Riegel publishing house in Potsdam commissioned different printmakers and workshops to convert 12 watercolor paintings of Babelsberg Castle by Greber into a color lithograph album. Many prints came from the lithographer Wilhelm Loeillot (1804~1881) in Berlin and the printing workshop of Druckerei Winckelmann & Söhne (Druckerei Winckelmann & Söhne). A watercolor sketch from life] (Schloss Babelsberg. Zwölf Aquarelle nach der Natur gezeichnet). Today, the first edition is hard to find, and even the Potsdam Museum contains only two lithographs. Afterwards, Verlag Ernst und Korn (Verlag Ernst und Korn) published the Babelsberg Castle again. From the list of pre-orders, we can know that a total of 126 sets were printed at that time, mostly by princes, nobles and merchants. It is noble, and it was issued in 1872. It was the year after the owner of the castle, King William I of Prussia, became the first emperor of the German Empire. The attempt to promote and display the emperor's palace is self-evident. In 1872, in order to celebrate that William, the owner of Babelsberg Castle, became the first emperor of the German Empire, Ernst and Kongen Publishing House reprinted and published the first edition of the printing plate, accompanied by the Berlin Edward・Eduard Haenel (Eduard Haenel) printing workshop, decorated with royal coat of arms lithograph decorative frame. Today, even the full version of the second edition in 1872 is very rare, with only a few single pages in circulation. We also have a collection of picture albums with original ocher embossing, as well as a complete picture album of Babelsberg Castle's squiggly gilded letters. (1872, second edition [Babelsberg Castle: Twelve Sketches of Watercolors] For information, please see the official website of [Home+Art]_[Babelsberg Castle]: The new Gothic style of Kaiser Wilhelm I Castle.) *If you have any detailed questions, please send an email to contact the designer *The merchandisers of this design hall are mainly Western antiques, old jewellery and home accessories, and old European original prints. Old products will inevitably have traces of history, but they are cleverly arranged according to personal tastes and each has its own place, which can promote an extraordinary life Taste and aesthetics. However, those who mind, please consider carefully before placing an order.