Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff
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...Church at Vierzehnheiligen (1743) and his later, more restrained Benedictine abbey at Neresheim (1745) characterize the increasing influence of classicism in Germany. In the north, in Berlin, Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff alternated between Rococo (e.g., Potsdam, Sanssouci, 1745) and neo-Palladian classicism (e.g., Berlin, Opera House, 1741). Two influential country houses, La...
From the 18th century the Prussian state was served by a line of distinguished architects. Among these were Andreas Schlüter, who initiated the late German Baroque style; Georg Venzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, who built Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam just outside Berlin for Frederick the Great; and Karl Friedrich Schinkel, who gave the centre of Berlin its characteristic Neoclassical grandeur....
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