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Ferdinand von Arnim ( 15 September 1814 in Treptow An Der Rega near Berlin23 March 1866 in Berlin) was an Architect and Watercolour-painter . He was a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Ludwig Persius who mainly worked in Berlin and Potsdam .

He studied architecture in Berlin at the King's school of architecture between 1833 and 1838. He became a member of the Berlin Architects' Association in 1839. From 1840 he worked as site foreman under Ludwig Persius ; in 1844 he was a building surveyor and in 1845 he opened his own practice, with an aristocratic clientele. He was employed from 1846 as a teacher, and from 1857 as a Professor in the academy of architecture in Berlin. Between 1855 and 1863 Prince Pückler-Muskau employed him in Branitz . 1862 saw him become the advisor on courtly architecture in the Potsdam department of Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse (1795-1876). Apart from these things, he worked as an architect of Prince Karl Of Prussia .

He died in 1866 and was entombed in the part of the Potsdam-Bornstedt cemetery (near the tomb of his mentor Ludwig Persius); nearby were buried the famous Sello family of court gardeners.


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