The garden: a history of its artistic design

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The garden: A history of its artistic design is the habilitation thesis by the art historian August Grisebach published in Leipzig by Klinkhardt & Biermann in 1910 , on the basis of which he was habilitated at the TH Karlsruhe in 1912 .

Table of contents

As a historical form of the garden, Grisebach's habilitation largely mentions the following:

  • the pleasure and root garden in the Middle Ages
  • the pleasure garden of the Renaissance in the plain
  • the pleasure garden of the baroque
  • the monastery garden
  • the English college garden
  • Furttenbach's school garden
  • the botanical garden
  • the kitchen garden in the form of orchards and vegetable gardens
  • the flower garden in the 17th century
  • the orangery
  • the Giardino secreto
  • different forms of the home garden over the centuries
  • the public garden in the Middle Ages

The gardening and landscaping elements are given special attention throughout the entire font.

  • Terrace, water, wall, stairs and pavilion,

But Grisebach also does not forget to pay attention to the water feature , the fruit tree and the pergola , albeit in less detail.

In addition, in Chapter 4, Grisebach deals separately with the development of individual parts of the garden since the Renaissance, including

As garden styles in architecture, grottos , garden facades , loggia decorations and garden halls are scrutinized and, in addition to the architectural field, garden sculptures such as statues and vases are also decorative.

Grisebach sets a final focus with the 5th chapter: The garden revolution in the 18th century . The harbingers of the revolution are described, garden art is placed in the social context, the paralysis of the architectural creative power from a new feeling for nature in art is thematized, the connection between painting and landscape gardens is deepened and the garden is analyzed as an expression of philosophical-poetic ideas until Finally, the younger types of landscape gardens in what Grisebach called the “transitional style” with a new focus on the “natural and large” in a new stylistic context.

Grisebach's sources

In his research on the history of garden art, Grisebach refers to

Influence on the subsequent literature

The garden: a history of its artistic design is still quoted today in the literature on horticulture and landscaping - e.g. B. from

  • Andrea Klein in Every communication is like art: the language of the garden (2003) or of
  • Stefan Schweizer in The Invention of Garden Art (2012).

In the history of art it did not have a lot of approval compared to other works, but it is still a standard work in the field of garden art.

Extract from the foreword

"Through the form in which man designs his garden, he bears - more naively and perhaps more clearly than anywhere else in art - testimony to his artistic self-esteem for nature, which in the end arises from a deep love for it."

Biographical influences

“What influence did his grandfather, the botanist August Grisebach (1814–1879), his father, the architect Hans Grisebach (1848–1914) and his uncle, the diplomat, writer and literary scholar Eduard Grisebach (1845–1906) have on Grisebach's publication? In the light of their own professional orientation, these old Grisebach gentlemen obviously have a biographical stamp on August Grisebach's motivation to combine architectural, botanical, horticultural and literary elements in his habilitation thesis. "

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biodiversity Heritage Library: The Garden , accessed May 11, 2016.
  2. ^ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: Grisebach, August , accessed on May 11, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g August Grisebach: The garden: a history of its artistic design. Bo Schlimme, Herrenberg / Rottenburg aN 2015, accessed on May 11, 2016 ( gartengestaltung-tuebingen.de PDF).
  4. ↑ Andrea Klein: Every communication is like art: the language of the garden. 2003, accessed on May 11, 2016 ( books.google.de ).
  5. ↑ Stefan Schweizer: The Invention of Garden Art. Generic autonomy - history of discourse - claim to work of art . (= Art Studies. Volume 172). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-422-07140-7 .
  6. ↑ Anna Ananieva, Department of Art History, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz / Institute for Eastern European History and Geography, University of Tübingen: Stefan Schweizer: The invention of garden design. ( sehepunkte.de , accessed on May 11, 2016).
  7. ↑ a b Bo Schlimme: How Grisebach created "The Garden". Herrenberg / Rottenburg aN 2015, accessed on May 11, 2016 ( gartengestaltung-tuebingen.de PDF).