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Platner
Platner may refer to: Places * Platner, Colorado People * Ernst Platner (1744–1818), German anthropologist, physician, and philosopher * Ernst Zacharias Platner (1773–1855), German painter and writer, son of the foregoing * Samuel Ball Platner (1863–1921), U.S. classicist and archaeologist * Warren Platner Warren Platner (June 18, 1919 – April 17, 2006) was an American architect and interior designer. Platner produced a furniture collection that has proved to be a continuing icon of 1960s modernism. He is also famed with designing several promi ... (1919–2006), U.S. architect and interior designer See also * Plattner {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Platner
Warren Platner (June 18, 1919 – April 17, 2006) was an American architect and interior designer. Platner produced a furniture collection that has proved to be a continuing icon of 1960s modernism. He is also famed with designing several prominent interiors in New York City, including headquarters offices for the Ford Foundation building and the original Windows on the World restaurant, atop the World Trade Center. Early career Born Joseph Warren Platner in Baltimore, Maryland, he graduated from Cornell University with a degree in architecture in 1941. His career began with work in some of the most prominent and remarkable architecture practices in the country. Between 1945 and 1950, he worked for Raymond Loewy and I.M. Pei. He received the Rome Prize in architecture in 1955. In 1967, Platner opened his own firm, Warren Platner Associates, in New Haven, Connecticut. He resided in Guilford. Furniture design Platner was a part of Eero Saarinen’s office from 1960 to 1965, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Platner
Ernst Platner (; ; 11 June 1744 – 27 December 1818) was a German anthropologist, physician and RationalistFrederick Beiser, ''The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte'', Harvard University Press, 2009, p. 214. philosopher, born in Leipzig. He was the father of painter Ernst Zacharias Platner (1773–1855). Life Following the death of his father in 1747, the philologist Johann August Ernesti became his foster father. He received his early education at the gymnasium in Altenburg, the Thomasschule in Leipzig and at the gymnasium in Gera.Prof. Dr. med. Ernst Platner Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig Afterwards, he studied at the |
Ernst Zacharias Platner
Ernst Zacharias Platner (1 October 1773, Leipzig - 14 October 1855, Rome) was a German painter, writer, and diplomat. Biography His father was the physician, Ernst Platner. He began studying art in Leipzig, with Adam Friedrich Oeser, then went to Dresden, followed by Vienna, where he studied with Heinrich Friedrich Füger. In 1800, he moved to Rome, and settled there permanently. His first works were not very successful, so he devoted some of his time to studying Italian history. In the winter of 1817/1818, the publisher Johann Friedrich Cotta paid a visit to Rome. On the recommendation of the Prussian ambassador, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, he gave Platner a commission to rework a book about Italy, by . Together with Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, and several other specialists, he produced what is now a standard work, ''Description of the City of Rome'', in two volumes. He also published a biography of the painter, Gottlieb Schick, which was reprinted in 2010. From 1823 until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Ball Platner
Samuel Ball Platner (December 4, 1863 – August 20, 1921) was an American classicist and archaeologist. Platner was born at Unionville, Connecticut, and educated at Yale College. He taught at Western Reserve University and is best known as the author of various topographical works on ancient Rome, chief among them ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome'', completed after Platner's death by Thomas Ashby and published in 1929; and as a contributor to the 1911 Britannica A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory .... Bibliography * ''The topography and monuments of ancient Rome'' (1st ed. 1904; 2nd rev ed. 1911; Boston, Allyn & Bacon). References External links * American archaeologists American classical scholars 1863 births 1921 deaths Yale College alumn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platner, Colorado
Platner is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Colorado, United States. The U.S. Post Office The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an Independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the executive branch of the Federal government of the Uni ... at Otis ( ZIP Code 80743) now serves Platner postal addresses. Geography Platner is located at (40.1552603,-103.0674384). References Unincorporated communities in Washington County, Colorado Unincorporated communities in Colorado {{Colorado-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
