PETER SCHENK, Stadtschloss Potsdam, ca 1700, The Electoral Palace and pleasure gardens at Potsdam, view from the entrance
The Potsdamer Stadtschloss was a Baroque town palace in the German city of Potsdam, built on an original town fortification. In 1700, Frederick III had himself crowned as King Frederick I of Prussia in Koningsbergen and to celebrate this, a new gate was built with the image of Fortuna on it.
Petrus Schenck (Elberfeld, Wuppertal 26 December 1660 - Leipzig, Saxony 1711) was a German engraver and mapmaker. Schenck was one of the most important figures in Saxon cartography in the first half of the 18th century.The mapmaker entered the service of the Amsterdam engraver and map publisher Gerard Valck. Schenck lived in the Jordaan on the Lauriergracht in amsterdam. The couple had six children, all of whom were baptized in the Westerkerk.
Around 1700, he settled in Leipzig as a globetrotter, mapmaker and art dealer.
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