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\n \n SCHMIDT Karl Karlovich (1866 - 1945, St. Petersburg), architect, associate academy member of architecture (1906). Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (1893). From 1896 worked in the Ministry of Justice. Built the brick-style mansion of V.V. Tiss (3 Syezzhinskaya Street, 1897-98) and the building of the Alexandrinsky Women's Orphanage (Nos. 49/15-51/17 Bolshoy Avenue of Vasilievsky Island), employing prototypical Art Nouveau forms, the K.G. Faberge jewellery firm building (24 Bolshaya Morskaya Street, 1899-1900), in the spirit of the early Art Nouveau, the mansion and bureau of P.P. Forostovsky (9 Fourth Line of Vasilievsky Island, 1900-01), an apartment house of his own (12/13 Khersonskaya Street, 1901-02), the houses of G.A Schulze (22 Kuybysheva Street, 1901-02) and S.S. Lenz (16 Thirteenth Line of Vasilievsky Island, 1902). The facade of the E.P. Shaffe Women's gymnasium facade (16 Fifth Line of Vasilievsky Island, 1907), one of the masterpieces of the rational trend in Art Nouveau, characterised by austerity and laconism. Following Schmidt's project the construction of Polovtsov's Mansion was commenced. The design of the L.L. Kenig's apartment house is dominated by Neoclassical tendencies (77/2 Kronverksky Avenue, 1911-12). Schmidt is the designer of the G.A. Lessner cast iron and machine-construction plant (23-25 Vyborgskaya Embankment, 1897-99), and the New Lessner machine-construction plant production facilities (47 Vyborgskaya Embankment, in the yard), facilities of the Nevsky thread manufactory association (19 Vyborgskaya Embankment, 1898-99; 3 Liflyandskaya Street, 1900, in the yard), the L.M. Ericsson and Co. telephone plant buildings complex (60 Bolshoy Sampsonievsky Avenue / 2 Gelsingforskaya Street, 1899, 1910-13). In Pavlovsk, Schmidt built a house of his own, a hospital, and power station, in Tsarskoe Selo, the palace of princess O.V. Paley. From the 1920s, he lived and worked in Germany.

Reference: Калужинская И. Г. Карл Шмидт // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XIX - начало XX века. СПб., 1998. С. 682-694.

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