Detail Linke Portaltür der Bauakademie Berlin / Detail Left portal door, Academy of Architecture Berlin
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Hercules and the nemean lion
Currently installed in the so-called Schinkel Klause
Berlin Academy of Architecture: Built according to plans of the Prussian Chief Building Director Karl Friedrich Schinkel from 1832 to 1836. In the 2nd World War heavily damaged the building was build up again in 1953.
In 1961, demolished to create space for the construction of the building to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR . Following the demolition of the Ministry in 1996 decided to re-establish the Berlin Academy of Architecture on the plans of Schinkel.
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