Clemens Alexander Wimmer

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Clemens Alexander Wimmer (* 1959 in Berlin ) is a German garden planner , author and painter .

Life

Wimmer is the son of an artist couple. He studied from 1977 to 1982 at the Technical University of Berlin , received his doctorate under Dieter Hennebo at the University of Hanover in 1984 and completed his habilitation in 2001 at the Technical University of Berlin in the field of garden monument maintenance .

He has been working as a freelancer since 1984 . He has been working in the library of the German Horticultural Association since 1990 on a voluntary basis.

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Wimmer combines the traditional, art-historically oriented garden historiography with personal history and especially with the history of plants as the main elements of the garden. He made the history of the introduction, distribution and use of plants a focus of his work. In recent years he has devoted himself increasingly to the history of practical horticulture, working techniques and gardening tools.

Wimmer drafted numerous reports and plans for historic gardens like the palace garden of Charlottenburg , the Schloss Bellevue Park , the Schwetzingen Castle Park , the castle park Rheinberg , the Greizer Park , the Castle Park Schönhausen , the palace gardens Koenigs Wusterhausen , the Berlin Lustgarten , the Gutspark Alt Madlitz , the Gutspark Meseberg and the Mathildenhof Winery Park in Nierstein .

Another focus of his work is the bibliography and history of horticultural publications. In the library of the German Horticultural Association, the largest horticultural specialist library in the German-speaking area, he is involved in expanding the holdings.

In his designs, he prefers a fixed structural shape that is in dialogue with variable planting. He attaches particular importance to working with the existing inventory and material. In the preservation of garden monuments, he stands for the thoroughness of research and the greatest possible preservation of the stock, but rejects dogmatic approaches and advocates individual solutions tailored to the respective case.

His oil paintings mostly show elementary landscapes in the state before human intervention or those that have been abandoned by humans and are to be understood as a form of criticism of civilization. He is particularly interested in the abstract play of shapes and colors of rock, water and clouds. His representation technique ties in with the late Romanticism. However, he avoids idyllic.

Executed planning works

• Charlottenburg Palace Gardens, Luiseninsel (reconstruction), 1989
• Courtyard and garden Dr. Hübner, Potsdam, 1993
• Garden courtyard v. Kieseritzky, Berlin, 1995
• Alt-Madlitz Castle Park (restoration), 1995
• Berdel Garden (terrace), Berlin, 1998
• Garden Dr. Wimmer, Potsdam, 1999
• Königs Wusterhausen Palace Park (reconstruction), 2000
• Front yard Dr. Rheinheimer, Potsdam, 2000
• Meseberg Castle Garden (new facility), 2004–2006 (with Ragnhild Kober-Carrière)

Publications

Editing

• Editor of the magazine Zandera: Messages from the library of the German gardening association Berlin .
• Co-editor of the magazine Die Gartenkunst , since 2015

Monographs

• Pavement mosaics in Berlin (West). Berlin., TU, Dipl. Arb., 1982
• The gardens of the Charlottenburg Palace. Edited by d. Senate Department for Urban Development and Environmental Protection. Berlin 1985. - 103 pages: Ill.
• Lines of sight in Berlin and the surrounding area: evidence of a princely worldview, art and lust for hunting. Berlin 1985. - 39 pages: Ill. (Berliner Hefte, 2)
• Details old Berlin apartment buildings. Berlin: Bauverlag, 1986. 71 pages: Ill. (Berliner Hefte, 3)
• Parks and Gardens in Berlin and Potsdam Ed. On the occasion of the Federal Garden Show in Berlin 1985 Berlin: Nicolaische, 1985. - 188 p .: Ill.
• History of garden theory. Darmstadt: Scientific Book Society 1989. - 485 S .: Ill.
• Senate Administration f. Urban development u. Environmental protection Berlin (Hrsg.): Inventory catalog of the Berlin plans by Peter Joseph Lenné with appendix Federal Republic of Germany and Austria. Berlin: Kulturbuchverl., 1990 (garden monument maintenance 5). - 80 p .: Ill. + 4 pages
• Whately, Thomas: considerations about today's gardening, explained by examples. Rüsselsheim: Brün, 1992. - 348 pages (sources on art and cultural history 4). Reprint d. Ed. Leipzig: Junius, 1771 (editor)
• The sculptural decoration in the Charlottenburg Palace Gardens. Berlin: Administration d. State Locks and Gardens, 1992. - 48 pages: Ill.
• The Prussian court gardeners. Potsdam: Pruss. Locks and Gardens, 1996. - 71 pages: Ill. + 1 part.
• Peschel, Johann: garden order / inside a proper description / how to create a useful and graceful garden ... for the right reason of Geometria. Neudr. Ed., Leipzig 1597. Nördlingen: Uhl, 2000. - 23 p., 138 sheets: Ill. (Editor)
• The Bornim pleasure palace and its gardens. Potsdam: Klaus Broschke [Potsdamer Str. 94], 2001. - 68 pages: Ill. (With Klaus Broschke)
• Trees and shrubs in historical gardens. Wood used in history and monument preservation. Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 2001. - 256 pp.
• Cherries for the king. Potsdam: vacat, 2001. - 96 pages: Ill. (With Marina Heilmeyer et al.)
• Apples for the people. Potsdam: vacat, 2002. - 100 p .: Ill. (With Marina Heilmeyer et al.)
• The monarchs' melons. Potsdam: vacat, 2003. - 104 pages: Ill. (With Marina Heilmeyer et al.)
• History and uses of ancient fruits. Berlin: DGGL, 2003. - 179 pp .: Ill.
• Bibliography of the German gardening books published before 1750 Ed. Von der Bücherei des Deutschen Gartenbaues e. V. Nördlingen: Uhl, 2003. 280 p .: Ill. (With Iris Lauterbach)
• The Potsdam pleasure garden. Edited by the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg. Berlin: Edition Hentrich 2004. 90 p .: Ill.
• Best pears at court. Potsdam: vacat, 2004. - 104 pages: Ill. (With Marina Heilmeyer et al.)
• The Bellevue Palace Gardens in Berlin. Berlin 2006. - 142 pages: Ill. (Announcements of the Pückler Society 21)
• Strawberries for princesses. Potsdam: vacat, 2008. 103 p .: Ill. (With Marina Heilmeyer et al.)
• Hippe, Krail and lawn mud: the history of garden tools. Weimar: vdg, 2011. - 245 pp .: Ill.
• René Rapin: The Gardens, a poem in four books. Weimar: vdg, 2013 (editor)
• Pleasure forest, bed and rose hills: history of the use of plants in garden art. Weimar: vdg, 2014. - 231 pages .: Ill. - ISBN 978-3-89739-749-1
• History of garden culture. Berlin: L&H, 2015. - 288 pages: Ill. (Main author, editor) ISBN 978-3-939629-35-1
• The garden artist Peter Joseph Lenné: A career at the Prussian court. Darmstadt: Schneider, 2016 [2015]. 226 pp., 16 pages - ISBN 978-3-650-40129-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Clemens Alexander Wimmer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Library of the German Horticulture