Library – Schloss Sanssouci

Artist/Designer: Johann August Nahl, Georg von Knobelsdorff, Johann Christian Hoppenhaupt

Project Location: Potsdam, Germany

Figure 1: Library, Johann August Nahl the Elder, Schloss Sanssouci. ( Source | Accessed : December 14, 2016 | Photographer: Images may not be downloaded or otherwise used without written authorization of the Foundation. For permission contact Stiftung Preußische Schlösser and Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg/ Photographer or Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg/ Photographer at https://www.spsg.de/en/home/. )

Figure 2: Library, Johann August Nahl the Elder, Schloss Sanssouci. ( Source | Accessed : December 14, 2016 )

Figure 3: Library, Johann August Nahl the Elder, Schloss Sanssouci. ( Source | Accessed : December 29, 2016 )

Figure 4: Library, Johann August Nahl the Elder, Schloss Sanssouci. ( Source | Accessed : December 29, 2016 )

Figure 5: Library, Johann August Nahl the Elder, Schloss Sanssouci. ( Source | Accessed : December 14, 2016 )

Figure 6: #6, Floor Plan, Schloss Sanssouci, Johann Gottfried Buering, 1745-47. ( Source | Accessed : December 11, 2016 )

Style/Period(s):
Rococo

Primary Material(s):
Wood

Function(s):
Library, Exhibition

Related Website(s):

Significant Date(s):
18th Century

Additional Information:
Eggeling, T. Nahl, Johann August. Grove Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Hübner, Paul Gustav. Schloss Sanssouci. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverl, 1926.

Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta. Court, Cloister, and City: The Art and Culture of Central Europe, 1450-1800. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Wesch, Petra, Rosemarie Heise-Schirdewan, and Bärbel Stranka. Sanssouci: the summer residence of Frederick the Great. Munich:
Prestel, 2003.

Images may not be downloaded or otherwise used without written authorization of the Foundation. For permission contact Stiftung Preußische Schlösser and Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg/ Photographer or Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg/ Photographer at https://www.spsg.de/en/home/.

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