Arnim was born in Treptow an der Rega and studied architecture in Berlin at the King's school of architecture between 1833 and 1838. He became a member of the Berlin Architects' Association in 1839. From 1840 he worked as site foreman under Ludwig Persius; in 1844 he was a building surveyor and in 1845 he opened his own practice, with an aristocratic clientele. He was employed from 1846 as a teacher, and from 1857 as a Professor in the academy of architecture in Berlin. Between 1855 and 1863 Prince Pückler-Muskau employed him in Branitz. 1862 saw him become the advisor on courtly architecture in the Potsdam department of Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse (1795-1876). Apart from these things, he worked as an architect of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia.
Arnim died in Berlin in 1866 and was entombed in the part of the Potsdam-Bornstedt cemetery (near the tomb of his mentor Ludwig Persius); nearby were buried the famous Sello family of court gardeners.
Works
- 1841-1844, Took part in the construction of the Church of St. Saviour in Potsdam-Sacrow under Ludwig Persius
- 1845-1848, The Church of Peace in Potsdam, together with Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse following the plans of Ludwig Persius and Friedrich August Stüler
- 1846, Norman Tower on the Ruinenberg following Ludwig Persius' plans
- 1848, Classical Villa von Haacke (belonging to Major General von Haacke; in Potsdam, Jägerallee 1)
- 1850, The monastery courtyard in Glienicke (in Berlin-Wannsee)
- 1859-1860, Late-classical Villa Arnim in Potsdam (Weinbergstraße 20)
- 1860-1861 Villa Arndt, Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 63, Potsdam (carried out by August Ernst Petzholtz
- 1860, Neo-gothic redesign of the palace of those in Briest derer von Briest (at that time the property of the von Rochow family) in Nennhausen in Rathenow
- 1860-1861, Redesign of Glienicke hunting palace
- 1863-1867, Swiss houses in Klein-Glienicke (an exclusive residential district of Potsdam-Babelsberg, Wilhelm-Leuschner-Straße, Louis-Nathan-Allee and Waldmüllerstraße). Four of the originally ten buildings survive.
- 1864-1868, Neo-gothic church in Kröchlendorff (Uckermark)
| Studied under Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Friedrich Ludwig Persius
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