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Design for The Magic Flute: The Hall of Stars in the Palace of the Queen of the Night, Act 1, Scene 6. Artist: After Karl Friedrich Schinkel (German, Neuruppin 1781-1841 Berlin); Karl Friedrich Thiele (German, 1780-1836). Dimensions: image: 9 x 13 3/4 in. (22.8 x 35 cm)
plate: 11 3/16 x 15 3/4 in. (28.4 x 40 cm)
sheet: 13 13/16 x 20 3/16 in. (35.1 x 51.2 cm). Publisher: Published by Ludwig Wilhelm Wittich (German, 1773-1832). Date: 1847-49.
Schinkel, the most prominent and prolific German architect of the nineteenth century, also worked for Berlin's major theatrical stages. His designs for a 1816 production of Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte remain his best known. Inspired by the Masonic themes incorporated in the opera's libretto, most of Schinkel's sets are in a resolutely Egyptian style.The pair shown here at left evokes the land reigned over by the evil Queen of the Night; the two at right are for the opera's second act, when the princely pair Tamino and Pamina progress through the realm of Sarastro. A selection of thirty-two designs was published several times from 1819 on; the Museum's impressions appear to be from the first edition. Great care was taken in the publication of the plates, which were finished by hand.