Tendencies in Mid-Eighteenth-Century German Gardening

• Autores: Dieter Hennebo
• Localización: Studies in the history of gardens and designed landscape, ISSN 1460-1176, Vol. 5, Nº 4, 1985, págs. 350-370
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • An attempt to sketch the trends which played an important, or at least a notable role, in mideighteenth-century German gardens can only succeed to some degree if one confines oneself from the start to a few aspects. Therefore the following essay is solely concerned with lines of development in "courtly" garden art, and is based on some particularly relevant sources and a few significant examples which may be compared with each other. Admittedly in the decades up to the outbreak of the Seven Years' War (1756-1763) garden culture flourished among the middle-class in many places - one thinks, for example, of the gardens and country-seats of the Nüremberg or Augsburg patricians created by Johann Christoph Volkamer or Johann Thomas Krauss. These gardens nevertheless continued to be similar to those of the artistocracy residing in the country and were tied, as they had been earlier, to the guiding pattern of princely gardens.