# Study for a Monument to Queen Louise [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SCHINKEL, Karl Friedrich]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Watercolour, 720 x 520 mm ## Commentary The picture shoes a design by the architect Schinkel for a Gothic mausoleum for the Prussian Queen Luise. This warm-hearted patron of the arts was much mourned, and Schinkel chose the Gothic style both as a patriotic expression, and for its echoes of organic natural forms, hinting at nature's processes of renewal and thus of eternal life. The complex patterns of vaulted arches receding into a light-filled interior evoke the German forests. As things turned out, the grieving king preferred a classical scheme, which still stands in the park at Charlottenburg, and economic conditions after the War of Liberation left Schinkel's grander vision for a vast Gothic cathedral in Berlin unrealized. ## Related artworks - [Design for the architectural academy in Berlin]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Gothic Cathedral with Imperial Palace]() - [Interior view]() - [Interior view]() - [Interior view]() - [Interior view]() - [Interior view]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()