Johann August Arens

{{Short description|German architect}}

Johann August Arens (born 10 February 1757 in Hamburg; died 18 August 1806 in Pisa, Italy){{Cite web|url=https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/203473|title=Discover architect, painter, draftsman Johann August Arens|website=rkd.nl|language=en|access-date=2019-10-31}} was a German architect of classicism, a landscape designer, a painter, and a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Fine Arts and Mechanical Sciences in Berlin.{{Cite web|url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/abstract/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7000003952|title=Arens, Johann August |work= Grove Art|year=2003 |language=en|doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T003952|access-date=2019-10-31|last1=Kreul |first1=Andreas |isbn=978-1-884446-05-4 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095422939|title=Johann August Arens |work= Oxford Reference|language=en|access-date=2019-10-31}}

Buildings

  • 1789–1792: Reconstruction of the Weimar City Palace{{cite book |last1=Curl |first1=James Stevens |title=Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture |date=1999 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-860678-9|edition=2}}
  • 1792–1797: Roman House in the Park an der Ilm in Weimar
  • 1794–1797: Country house of Baron Caspar Voght in Klein Flottbek, Hamburg
  • 1800: Cemetery chapel St. Petri in Hamburg
  • Country house Duncker in Hamburg-Horn
  • 1801: Gentz staircase in the Weimar city palace, completed by Heinrich Gentz between 1802 and 1803
  • Country house Amsinck
  • Country house Mönckeberg
  • Country house Eiffe
  • Wandsbeker Church (inaugurated in 1800)

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