Johann August Arens (born 10 February 1757 in

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; died 18 August 1806 in

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) was a German

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, a landscape designer, a painter, and a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Fine Arts and Mechanical Sciences in Berlin.

Buildings

* 1789–1792: Reconstruction of the

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City Palace * 1792–1797: Roman House in the

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in Weimar * 1794–1797: Country house of Baron Caspar Voght in Klein Flottbek,

* 1800: Cemetery chapel St. Petri in Hamburg * Country house Duncker in Hamburg-Horn * 1801: Gentz staircase in the Weimar city palace, completed by Heinrich Gentz between 1802 and 1803 * Country house

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* Country house Mönckeberg * Country house Eiffe *

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er Church (inaugurated in 1800)

References

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