# Staircase in the Berlin Palace

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## Artwork

- Artist: [GÄRTNER, Eduard](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/grtner-eduard-r5cf47522bfa730>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 48 x 59 cm

## Commentary

This painting is illusionistic in its theatrical sense of sudden confrontation. Guardsmen march in the distance while a servant and her little girl as seen in the foreground of Andreas Schlüter&#39;s designed Baroque palace, destroyed in World War II.

## Related artworks

- [English Embankment in Petersburg](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/grtner-eduard-r5cf47522bfa730/english-embankment-in-petersburg-rd1f4f0367a1dbc>)
- [Klosterstrasse](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/grtner-eduard-r5cf47522bfa730/klosterstrasse-ra710aad8936c54>)
- [Königsbrücke and Königskolonnade](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/grtner-eduard-r5cf47522bfa730/knigsbrcke-and-knigskolonnade-r01b52f56f68ec6>)
- [The Architectural Academy by Schinkel](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/grtner-eduard-r5cf47522bfa730/the-architectural-academy-by-schinkel-rb8797921f699b0>)
- [The Parochialstrasse in Berlin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/grtner-eduard-r5cf47522bfa730/the-parochialstrasse-in-berlin-rfb6523c636cb08>)
- [Workshop of the Gropius Brothers](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/grtner-eduard-r5cf47522bfa730/workshop-of-the-gropius-brothers-r9a25a5247717bb>)

## Attribution

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