Wilhelm Stier

Wilhelm Stier was born the son of a German warrant officer in the then Prussian province of South Prussia.

From 1812 on Wilhelm lived with relatives in Berlin and attended high school at the Gray Monastery.

After five years in Italy, Stier started to teach design and later art history at the Bauakademie around Easter 1828, although he had passed only one very junior exam.

Stier created numerous study and teaching designs, inter alia for the Berlin Cathedral.

His grave monument created by Friedrich August Stüler carries the inscription "To the friend, to the teacher - by the architects of Germany".