Johann George Schmidt or Johann Georg(e) Schmi(e)d (1707, Fürstenwalde bei Geising - 24 July 1774,

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...

) was a German architect of the Dresden Baroque. He was brother-in-law, student and successor of

George Bähr George Bähr (15 March 1666 – 16 March 1738) was a German architect. Life George Bähr was born into a poor family in Fürstenwalde (now a part of Geising, Saxony), the son of a weaver. The village priest, however, helped pay for his educatio ...

Work

He became well known for his building, in the reconstruction of Dresden after the

Seven Years' War The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict that involved most of the European Great Powers, and was fought primarily in Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific. Other concurrent conflicts include the French and Indian War (175 ...

. He designed Dresden's second Annenkirche, and cooperated with as designer of the Kreuzkirche and with to build the Dreikönigskirche. The new church at the

Schloss Weesenstein Schloss Weesenstein is a '' Schloss'' located in , a small village, part of Müglitztal in the Müglitz river valley, around south of Dohna in Saxony, Germany. History A castle was erected here sometime around 1200, built with the purpose of def ...

is also attributed to him.

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Sächsische biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schmidt, Johann George 1707 births 1774 deaths 18th-century German architects People from Altenberg, Saxony Architects from Saxony