Carl Schmidt
Illustration — Carl Schmidt in 1897 Carl Emil Michael Schmidt (December 21, 1866 – 8 August 1945) was a Russo-German architect and philatelist. Carl Schmidt was born in St. Petersburg, his father Karl Friedrich Adolf Ferdinand Schmidt was a German marine engineer from Anklam in Mecklenburg-Strelitz and mother Olga Helena Schmidt was a Baltic German.
Also recorded as Carl Emil Michael Schmidt
Carl Schmidt

Архив Карла Шмидта в Берлине · Public domain
- Full name
- Сarl Emil Michael Schmidt.
- Born
- Carl Schmidt was born on 9 December 1866. · Saint Petersburg.
- Died
- Carl Schmidt died on 8 August 1945. · Magdeburg.
- Nationality
- Russian Empire · Russia · Germany
- Occupation
- architect · philatelist
- Movements
- brick style · Art Nouveau
- Education
- Imperial Academy of Arts
- Honours
- Lindenberg Medal · Crawford Medal · Sieger Prize · Bungerz Plaque
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Carl Schmidt in 1897 Carl Emil Michael Schmidt (December 21, 1866 – 8 August 1945) was a Russo-German architect and philatelist. Carl Schmidt was born in St. Petersburg, his father Karl Friedrich Adolf Ferdinand Schmidt was a German marine engineer from Anklam in Mecklenburg-Strelitz and mother Olga Helena Schmidt was a Baltic German.
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He is known as a representative of the "brick-style" and the early Art Nouveau in architecture. Schmidt studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. His villas and houses adorn the streets of St. In autumn 1918 the Schmidt family was forced to leave Russia and back to Germany. In Germany, he could not follow on his architectural work. He died in 1945 in Magdeburg.
• 1897/98. Villa of V. Tiss. Sjezzhinskaya ul, 3 • 1897/99. Alexandra asylum for women. Bolshoy prospekt V. O., 49-51 • 1899/1900. Building of the Faberge firm. Bolshaya Morskaya ul., 24 • 1900/01. Villa and the office of Paul Forostovski. 4 liniya V. O., 9 • 1900/04. Own villa in Pavlovsk. 2-ya Krasnoflotskaya ul., 7 • 1901/02. Apartment house. Chersonskaya ul., 13 • 1907. New building for a girls' school of Emilie Schaffe. 5-ya liniya O. V., 16 • Illustration — Villa of V. Tiss • Illustration — Alexandra asylum • Illustration — Building of the Fabergé firm • Illustration — Carl Schmidt's villa in Pavlovsk
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Carl Schmidt is recorded as having received Lindenberg Medal, Crawford Medal and Sieger Prize.

Павловск. Угол Зверинецкой (27А) и 2-й Краснофлотской улиц. Вилла архитектора Карла Шмидта. 1900—1904
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Josef Menges's Reisen auf das Hochplateau der Somali Halbinsel im Januar Dezember 1884
Carl Schmidt (?)/Bruno Hassenstein (1839-1902) · Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, Jahrgang 1885, Tafel 20. Bibliothèques municipales de Chambéry
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1866
Carl Schmidt was born in 1866 at Saint Petersburg.
1945
Carl Schmidt died in 1945 at Magdeburg.
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Carl Schmidt was born in Saint Petersburg.
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Carl Schmidt died in Magdeburg.
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Carl Schmidt was recorded at birth as Сarl Emil Michael Schmidt. The authorities additionally record the heading Carl Emil Michael Schmidt. His recorded language was German. He was the child of Karl Friedrich Adolf Ferdinand Schmidt. Naming and authority record. Those registers additionally record the form Schmidt & Co.
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Schmidt, Carl, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
Richard Carl (Firma)
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