Heino Schmieden (May 15, 1835 – September 7, 1913) was a German

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Biography

Schmieden was born in Soldin,

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(modern Myślibórz, Poland) In 1866 Schmieden graduated from the renowned Bauakademie in Berlin with a diploma in

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. Even during his last year at the school he had been continuing his studies with trips to France, England and Italy. With high artistic aspirations he produced plans for museums, hospitals, monuments and villas in addition to conceiving numerous residence and office buildings. Until

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' death in 1880, he and Schmieden worked together to develop their architecture firm, ''Fa. Gropius & Schmieden'', into one of Berlin's greatest. The firm continued to produce great work thereafter as Schmieden teamed up with such notable architects as Robert Speer, Victor von Weltzien and Julius Boethke to run it. The present-day

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in Berlin was built in 1881 based on plans by Schmieden and

as an applied art museum. It was constructed in the style of the Italian

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and has a central atrium.

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s with allegories from various ages and the coats of arms of German states decorate the spaces between windows. Gentzrode Herrenhaus

In 1881 he became a member of the Berlin Bauakademie, followed by his admittance in 1887 to the

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. He is buried in the Alter St. Matthäus Kirchhof in the

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neighborhood of Berlin.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schmieden, Heino 1835 births 1913 deaths People from Myślibórz People from the Province of Brandenburg 19th-century German architects German neoclassical architects