Gustav Lüttge

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Gustav Max Lüttge (born June 12, 1909 in Hamburg ; † February 23, 1968 there ) was a German garden and landscape designer.

Live and act

Gustav Lüttge's parents were the businessman Adolf Lüttge (born June 25, 1874 in Braunschweig ; † July 3, 1912 in Bonn ) and Emma Zickwolff (born December 2, 1879 in Frankfurt am Main ; † November 29, 1969 in Hamburg). In addition to Gustav, the father who died young left behind another son.

Gustav Lüttge grew up in his hometown, where he attended the Johanneum School of Academics . In his youth he rented old parcels in which he studied plants and was considered musically interested. Due to the family's financially precarious circumstances, he had to work early. Under pressure from his guardian, the coal importer Max Vidal, he completed a commercial apprenticeship from 1924 to 1928, but when he was of age he switched to the company Oscar Röhe Nurseries and Perennials , where he received professional training from 1929 to 1931. He then trained with the respected perennial grower Karl Foerster in Bornim and as a volunteer with the garden and landscape designer Heinrich Wiepking-Jürgensmann in Berlin . Lüttge traveled to England in 1932 with the landscape architect Hermann Thiele . In July 1933 he joined the German Society for Garden Art and in August 1933 started his own business as a garden designer without a formal professional qualification with a trade license.

Gustav Lüttge grave, Ohlsdorf cemetery

On January 3, 1939, he married the nurse Erika von Delius (* May 18, 1915 in Ried ; † October 8, 1997 in Marquartstein ), sister of the garden designer Oliver von Delius (1909–1979) and daughter of the writer Rudolf von Delius (1878-1946). The children Veronika (* 1939), Thomas (* 1941), Martin (1943–2017) and Margot (* 1950) emerged from the marriage.

From October 1941 Lüttge did military service in the navy in Kiel . During this time he wrote articles for the magazine Gartenschönheit and designed some private gardens in Northern Germany. After the end of the Second World War , he worked in the Hamburg construction group from 1946 to 1950 . In 1957 he commissioned his friend Gustav Burmester , whom he knew from the building community, to build a residential and studio building on Liethwisch in Hamburg-Lokstedt . He lived and worked there until the end of his life. The grove there, with rhododendrons planted partly from their own breeding, is a listed building and became the property of the Free and Hanseatic City.

Lüttge's estate, which has so far been little researched, can be found in the Hamburg Architecture Archive.

Gustav Lüttge was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, grid square AB 21 ( Stiller Weg south of Chapel 7).

Famous works

Green spaces designed by Lüttge are known from the middle of the 20th century. In 1951 and 1956 he designed two private parks on the Elbe slope, and in 1953/54 the allocation of the Hohnerkamp housing estate in Hamburg-Bramfeld . In 1954 he designed a memorial to the fallen in Bad Bramstedt , around 1965 another in Barmstedt , and in 1957 a residential garden in Lüneburg . His outdoor facilities for the Berlin Hansaviertel in Berlin date from 1957, the area of ​​the swimming pool for the Hamburger Land- und Golfclub in der Lüneburger Heide eV, Hittfeld , dates to 1959. In the 1960s he designed standardized gardens for 190, some of them by Richard Neutra designed single-family houses for the Bewobau settlement Quickborn . In 1963 he designed the outdoor facilities of the Israelite Hospital , two years later the gardens of the hospital in Stade and from 1966 to 1968 the Hemmingstedter Weg settlement. The last major project was the spa park in Mölln . In the systems he designed, he lengthened the lines of the buildings with long paths, seat walls and pergolas in the area. In doing so, he created green spaces that created a unity of “hard” perimeter development and “soft” perimeter planting.

Lüttge received orders from prominent families such as Biermann-Ratjen , Blessing, Brinckmann, Bucerius , Coutinho, Kühne, Reemtsma , Springer, Vidal, Voss and Warburg . In 1953, he was particularly well known for the design of the Alsterpark . For the facility, which was created on the occasion of the International Horticultural Exhibition, he resorted to ideas from Alfred Lichtwark , who had proposed around 1910 to create a large, green park that was artistically designed. At the opening of the horticultural exhibition, 50 sculptures stood here as "outdoor plastic". The exhibition opened by Theodor Heuss brought Lüttge recognition beyond Germany.

literature

Web links

Commons : Gustav Lüttge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Lüttge-Garten (Hamburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b German Gender Book, Volume 193, Starke Verlag, Limburg ad Lahn 1987, pp. 492–494.
  2. ↑ Celebrity Graves
personal data
SURNAME Lüttge, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lüttge, Gustav Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German garden and landscape designer
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1968
Place of death Hamburg