Karl Bötticher

Karl Gottlieb Wilhelm Bötticher (29 May 1806, Nordhausen – 19 June 1889, Berlin) was a German archaeologist who specialized in architecture.

He studied at the Academy of Architecture in Berlin, and was afterwards appointed an instructor in the School of Design of the Industrial Institute there.

In 1844, he was appointed a professor of tectonics (architectonics) at the Academy of Architecture.

In 1868, he was appointed director of the sculpture department at the Berlin Museum.

In this work Bötticher suggested splitting the architectural form into a structural "core-form" (German: Kernform) and decorative "art-form" (German: Kunstform).