An Evening with Avery: Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Kurt Forster & Barry Bergdoll
in Conversation
Reception and book signing following

Thursday, December 6th 2018
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Stronach Center
8th Floor Schermerhorn Hall

Please join us for a very special Evening with Avery celebrating our recent acquisition of Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s Werke der höheren Baukunst.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Professors Kurt Forster (Professor Emeritus, Yale School of Architecture) and Barry Bergdoll (Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History, Columbia University)  will discuss this incomparable portfolio of Schinkel’s work and Forster’s recently published Schinkel: A Meander Through His Life and Work (Birkhauser, 2018)

The evening’s program is co-sponsored by Avery Friends and Columbia’s Department of Art History & Archaeology, Collins-Kaufmann Forum.

Image Credit: Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Interior view of reception hall in the royal palace on the Acropolis, Werke der höheren Baukunst (Potsdam: Verlag von Ferdinand Riegel, 1840-1848).

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