The photographer Alexander Schippel (*1979, Berlin) has taken on
one of Berlin's historic architectural monuments: starting in 2011,
he spent seven years following the restoration of the Staatsoper
Unter den Linden, which was carried out by the architect HG Merz,
who was commissioned with the job in fall 2010. Schippel's
photographs document the transformation of G. W. von Knobelsdorff's
rococo building-which had already been renovated once during the
era of the German Democratic Republic-into a superlative opera
house. Attention has been drawn to spectacular interventions in the
original building's structure and minutiae: artfully curving
staircases, the columns in the Apollosaal wrapped in plastic
sheeting, or precisely detailed panoramas of the ceilings. This
monograph, with a foreword by Horst Bredekamp, presents the Berlin
opera house in meticulous detail and with a sense of immediacy that
no visit to the opera can provide.
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