Carl Kempkes

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Carl Kempkes (born July 21, 1881 in Rees on the Lower Rhine ; † January 25, 1964 in Weißenburg in Bavaria ) was a German garden architect .

Life

Kempkes comes from a family of gardeners ; both his father and grandfather were gardeners. Between 1895 and 1898, Carl Kempkes trained in his father's gardening business, then he worked in several other horticultural companies before he attended the gardening school in Köstritz from 1904 to 1905 and the royal gardening school in Berlin-Dahlem , which was run by Peter Joseph Lenné from 1907 to 1909 was founded.

In 1909, Kempkes joined Franz Ludwig Späth's business , the Späth tree nursery, as a horticultural technician . In 1912 he became director of the local garden design department and in 1930 director general of the entire company. In 1943 Kempkes left the company. After the Second World War he worked as a freelance garden architect.

Act

Pavilion in the garden of Villa Lemm in Berlin-Gatow

Between 1910 and 1930 the “Garden Design” department shaped its own garden style. It was a combination of a representative architectural and landscape garden. The core of the respective complex was structured according to architectural criteria and from this core went into a more free design. The design elements are primarily aimed at creating a spatial effect and typically include white-painted wooden pergolas and benches, climbing arches and trellises, hedges, borders and high rose trunks. There are also regular, strongly delimited special gardens, terraces with limestone walls and various style elements from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The planting of the landscape parts was often dominated by the new species from the Späth tree nursery or new perennial cultivations by Karl Foerster , whereby Kempkes preferred roses.

Kempkes laid out numerous villa gardens and parks in the Berlin area (including the garden of Villa Lemm, one of the two garden monuments in the Berlin-Gatow district ), but also in other parts of Germany, in Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Estonia.

Kempkes was head of the competition committee of the Federation of German Garden Architects , member of the board of trustees of the teaching and research institute for horticulture Berlin-Dahlem (the successor institution of the royal gardening institute at the Wildpark near Potsdam ). At the international horticultural congress in Vienna (1927) he gave the well-known lecture “Questions of the status of garden architects”. Here he demanded a defined job description of the horticulturalist, the promotion of a horticultural training system, the university study of garden architects (introduced in 1929) with the degree as a qualified engineer (since 1972, previously a qualified gardener ), the protection of the designation "garden and landscape architect" by chambers of architects (since 1973) and the consideration of horticultural knowledge in urban development and regional planning (since 1973 regulated by state maintenance laws ). In addition, there was also the demand for environmental protection: "The garden architect [is] called to play a decisive role in restoring the destroyed balance for the foundations of human existence."

The rose variety "Carl Kempkes Kordes" is named after Kempkes.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Types of roses Scented roses. In: welt-der-rosen.de. Retrieved August 4, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin: individual data set. In: architekturmuseum.ub.tu-berlin.de. Retrieved August 4, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List . Retrieved August 4, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Kempkes, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German garden architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Rees on the Lower Rhine
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1964
Place of death Weißenburg in Bavaria