{"id":6324,"date":"2019-04-30T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/magazin\/artikel\/ein-haus-in-quittegelb\/"},"modified":"2020-05-26T18:41:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T16:41:49","slug":"a-quince-yellow-building","status":"publish","type":"magazine-article","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/magazine\/article\/a-quince-yellow-building\/","title":{"rendered":"A quince yellow building"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Any more than we know what the Berlin Palace looked like 300 years ago. Deciding which shade to use for the plasterwork of the reconstructed facades of the Berlin Palace therefore required some detective work. Historical depictions showing the colour of the profane baroque masterpiece built by architect Andreas Schl\u00fcter for Frederick I, king \u201cin\u201d Prussia around 1700, are rather hard to come by.<\/p>\n

What we do know, of course, is that the first Prussian royal residence in Berlin was modelled on the palaces of the French Sun King Louis XIV in Versailles, allowing us to draw some conclusions about the colour. But none of this constitutes reliable information. The plaster on both the baroque Armory opposite and the rococo Knobelsdorff palace in Potsdam, for instance, is painted pink. So how to resolve this difficult question with any certainty?<\/p>\n

The decorative details and colours of the Berlin Palace were not reasonably accurately depicted until the early 19th century on the paintings by Biedermeier painter Eduard G\u00e4rtner, who created various city panoramas that also feature the palace. He painted a famous picture of the Schl\u00fcterhof. However, at that time, the baroque palace was already more than 100 years old. Johann David Schleuen’s etchings, for example, are older, as they date from around 1750, but they are not in colour. The original construction plans have not survived. So, what methods can be used to learn what the original colour was 300 years ago? <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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