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 Architecture in the Nineteenth Century. Ill August Stiiler (1800 — 1 865), another German architect, built the Friedens-kirche at Potsdam, and the new Museum at Berlin, which is of no special external beauty, but praiseworthy for the harmony and appropriateness of its internal arrangements; and for its great staircase, one of the finest in Europe. Munich is especially rich in buildings erected in the present century. Leo von Klenze and Gartner are the architects of the greater number. The gbjptothek (i. e. sculpture gallery) and the pinacotheh (i. e. picture-gallery) by Von Klenze, are in the classic style ; the former is not altogether a copy of a Greek work, but has something of original feeling : the cornice above the portico is finely decorated, and the pediment is enriched with sculptures by Wagner, Schwanthaler, and others. The picture-gallery is by some considered a finer work than the glyptothek. It fully expresses the purpose for which it was erected ; the galleries for large pictures, and cabinets for smaller ones, are extremely effective. The materials are brick, with stone dressings. These buildings, and many others in different parts of Bavaria, — the Walhalla of Regensburg, by Von Klenze, the Ludwigs-kirche and Triumphal Arch in the same town by Gartner, for instance, — were all built at the expense of Ludwig I. of Bavaria, an enthusiastic lover of art. Gartner adopted a revived Romanesque, whilst Von Klenze adhered to the Greek. Other German architects, who have aided in the classic revival of the present century, are Gottfried Semper, builder of the theatre, lately destroyed by fire, and of the museum of Dresden, and Theophil Hansen, to whom Vienna owes many handsome buildings.