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Subject(s)

• Landscape architecture—Philosophy [Browse]
• Landscape architects—Germany—Biography [Browse]
• Schaal, Hans Dieter 1943-—Catalogs [Browse]
• Schaal, Hans Dieter 1943-—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]

Writer of preface

• Werner, Frank, 1944- [Browse]

Photographer

• Horn, Peter C. [Browse]

Translator

• Kirkland, Alison [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Catalogs [Browse]
• Biographies [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• catalogs (documents) [Browse]

Summary note

If there is a plateau that continuously unites Hans Dieter Schaal's numerous artistic fields of activity, a kind of fundamental level, then it is surely that of landscape architecture. Landscape motifs are as convincingly present in his stage sets as they are in his installations, his exhibition architectures, his texts, and, naturally, also his park and garden designs. Schaal has been on the track of the fascination of landscapes since the 1960s. For him, encountering the parterre or 'carpet patterns' of the baroque Herrenhäuser Gärten in Hannover was a key experience. This was followed by an intensive study of the early landscape gardens of Great Britain, the park complexes of the Romantics and the Enlightenment in Weimar, Wörlitz, and Muskau, and by studies of the garden art ideas and philosophical implications that underpinned each of them. As a twice-over 'Artist-in-Residence' at the Villa Massimo in Rome, Schaal was also able to absorb the whole cosmos of Italian garden and park planning, from the Renaissance to the present day.

Notes

Includes an essay by the architect reflecting on his body of work.

Language note

Text in German with English translation.

Contents

• Some remarks on the scenographic landscape spaces of Hans Dieter Schaal / Frank Rolf Werner = Anmerkungen zu den inszenierten Landschaftsräumen von Hans Dieter Schaal / Frank Rolf Werner
• On my works. A retrospective / Hans Dieter Schaal = Zu meinen Arbeiten. Ein Rückblick / Hans Dieter Schaal.

Other title(s)

• Landscape architecture
• Landschaftsarchitektur

ISBN

• 9783869050034 ((hd. bd.))
• 3869050039 ((hd. bd.))

OCLC

992700781

International Article Number

• 9783869050034

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