Design for The Magic Flute: The Hall of Stars in the Palace of the Queen of the Night, Act 1, Scene 6, 1847?49, Aquatint printed in color and hand colored, image: 9 x 13 3/4 in. (22. 8 x 35 cm), Prints, After Karl Friedrich Schinkel (German, Neuruppin 1781?1841 Berlin), Karl Friedrich Thiele (German, 1780?1836), Schinkel, the most prominent and prolific German architect of the nineteenth century, also worked for Berlin's major theatrical stages. His designs for a 1816 production of Mozart's opera Die Zauberflote remain his best known