Armin Sckell

Armin Emil August Heinrich Christian Sckell (* May 5, 1836 in Eisenach ; † December 27, 1910 in Weimar ) was the Grand Ducal Saxon court gardener and later garden inspector at the Belvedere near Weimar .

life and work

Armin Sckell comes from the gardener and painter family Sckell . He was the grandson of Johann Christian Sckell and the second son of Gottlieb Ludwig Eduard Sckell . His brother was Julius Sckell .

After completing his training as a gardener, Armin Sckell initially worked in the Berlin Botanical Garden . He then went on several training trips, including to England in 1860. In 1862 he became a "garden conductor" in the Belvedere Gardens near Weimar. Descriptions and plans from 1866 have been preserved by his hand, with the help of which in 2003 the former natural stone terraces and paths in the interior of the “Long House” of the Orangery of the Belvedere could be reconstructed in terms of garden conservation .

In 1873 Armin Sckell was appointed court gardener of the Belvedere. From 1900 he was garden inspector of the Belvedere and was also responsible for the city gardening company Weimar and the court gardening company Henrichau (also: Heinrichau) in Silesia.

Armin Sckell was a member of the " Association of German Garden Artists " (VdG).

literature

• Armin Sckell: Comments on the culture of warm building plants in the room, double windows and so-called flower salon , in: Hamburger Garten- und Blumenzeitung, Volume 20, 1864, p. 98.
• Gartenkunst (magazine), vol. 2, 1900, H. 9, p. 172.
• Gert Gröning, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn : Green biographies. Biographical handbook on landscape architecture of the 20th century in Germany , Berlin [u. a.]: Patzer, 1997, p. 360. ISBN 3-87617-089-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death register StA Weimar, No. 527/1910