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Wilhelm Johann Karl Zahn

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Name
  
Wilhelm Karl


Books
  
Ancient Italian Ornament CD-ROM and Book

Wilhelm Johann Karl Zahn (21 August 1800, Rodenberg, Schaumburg – 22 August 1871, Berlin) was a German architect, painter and art critic.

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Biography

He became professor in the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin, 1829. He superintended excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii; cast the finest bronzes and silver vases for the Museum Borbonico; and was architect of many fine houses and villas in Pompeiian style in England and the United States.

Works

  • The Most Beautiful Ornaments and the Most Notable Pictures from Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiæ (1828–30)
  • Ornaments of All Classical Periods of Art (1832–39)
  • References

    Wilhelm Johann Karl Zahn Wikipedia