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7%OFFHillert Ibbeken - Prussian Gardens/Preussische Garten - 9783936681680 - V9783936681680
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Prussian Gardens/Preussische Garten

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Description for Prussian Gardens/Preussische Garten Hardcover. Num Pages: 300 pages, 262 colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: AMV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 303 x 285 x 28. Weight in Grams: 2378.
The Prussian gardens in Berlin, Potsdam and elsewhere in Brandenburg: for the first time, texts and photographs present an overall view of all the gardens and parks created under the Hohenzollerns over a period of more than three centuries. Only the cross-genre collaborative effort of garden designers, gardeners, architects, scenographers, sculptors, painters, and creative rulers, the most prominent of whom were Frederick II and Frederick William IV, made it possible "to turn the environs of Berlin and Potsdam step by step into a garden", as Frederick William IV put it in 1840. Figures such as David Garmatter, Friedrich Christian Glume, Siméon Godeau, Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Peter Joseph Lenné, Antoine Pesne, Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, Georg Potente, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the Sello brothers, and Antoine Watteau -- picked from a whole cornucopia of names -- indicate the spectrum of artistic forces that created the Prussian garden realm. Impatient with his royal client, who had once again cut his funding, Lenné alluded to the high standard of princely landscape art: "Your Majesty still does not understand how ingenious my idea is". The present volume is an attempt to examine the "ingeniousness of the idea" specifically inherent in the gardens of the Hohenzollerns in Prussia.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Language
German
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Fellbach, Germany
ISBN
9783936681680
SKU
V9783936681680
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About Hillert Ibbeken
Until his retirement Hillert Ibbeken was a professor of geology at the Freie Universität Berlin, but his lifelong occupation has been architectural photography. Katja Schoene is an art historian and musicologist. She was formerly on the staff of the National Trust in the landscape gardens at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, and of the Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg. As a freelance author she has written about Schloss Sanssouci, Friedrich August Stüler and the "Pomeranian curiosity cabinet".

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