Architecture
Brandenburg Gate
Carl Gotthard Langhans, 1788-1791
Show the style
Neoclassical · chronological order 7
Where to see it
Pariser Platz
Berlin · Germany
A monumental gateway built by Carl Gotthard Langhans between 1788 and 1791 at the entrance to Berlin’s Unter den Linden, commissioned by Frederick William II of Prussia as a gate of peace. It copies the Propylaea on the Athenian Acropolis fairly directly, with six Greek Doric columns on each side, and carries a bronze “Quadriga of Victory” with the goddess Victory (the sculptor Schadow originally meant her to be Eirene, peace) driving four horses.