Carl Schmidt (architect), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian architect
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Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg
About Carl Schmidt (architect)
- Carl Emil Michael Schmidt (German: ???? ???????? ?????, tr.
- Karl Karlovich Shmidt;December 21, 1866 – 8 August 1945) was a Russo-German architect and philatelist.
- Born in St.
- Petersburg, his father Karl Friedrich Adolf Ferdinand Schmidt was a German marine engineer from Anklam in Mecklenburg-Strelitz and mother Olga Helena Schmidt was a Baltic German.
- He is known as a representative of the "brick-style" and the early Art Nouveau in architecture. Carl Schmidt studied at the St.
- Petersburg Academy of Arts.
- His villas and houses adorn the streets of St.
- Petersburg.
- In autumn 1918 the Schmidt family was forced to leave Russia and back to Germany.
- In Germany, he could not follow on his architectural work.
- He died in 1945 in Magdeburg.
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