Detlef Karg

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Detlef Karg (born June 18, 1945 in Ketzin , Westhavelland district ) is a German garden architect , garden historian and monument conservator .

Life

Karg completed an apprenticeship as a gardener in the Ketziner tree nursery, formerly Späth'sche tree nursery , in 1963/64 . From 1965 to 1970 he studied gardening and landscape culture at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He then worked as a research assistant at the State Palaces and Gardens of Potsdam-Sanssouci . In 1975 he went to Berlin to work as chief curator at the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments, where he worked from 1986 as chief curator and head of the department for historic gardens and parks. At the Technical University of Dresden in 1977 he received his doctorate as Dr.-Ing. In 1987 the University of Hanover offered him the professorship for the history of garden art and garden monument preservation, which in view of the political situation at the time did not materialize. Karg has been a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts since 1989 . After German reunification, Karg became state curator and director of the newly founded Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation in 1991 . His term of office ended on June 30, 2012 when he retired.

Act

Detlef Karg was committed to the idea of ​​securing and reconstructing historical cultural assets and preserving them for posterity. His professional successes included the restoration of the palaces and gardens in and around Potsdam, of Branitz Palace and Park , the baroque gardens of Neuzelle Abbey and Rheinsberg Palace based on historical models, the rescue and preservation of many monuments as part of the federal program for the preservation of nationally important monuments, including Kloster Chorin , Kloster Zinna , Kloster Heiligengrabe and Brandenburger Cathedral .

His work was recognized by two honorary professorships: 1994 at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam , 1999 at the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus . He wrote expert opinions on the preservation of monuments a. a. for the restoration of the Schönbrunn palace gardens in Vienna and for baroque gardens in Sweden.

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Detlef Karg: Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. Notes on his 300th birthday . In: Architecture of the GDR. 8/1980.
  • Joseph Furttenbach, Detlef Karg (Red.): Architectura recreationis . Verlag für Bauwesen, 1988, ISBN 3-345-00180-2 .
  • Detlef Karg (Red.): Peter Joseph Lenné. Garden art in the 19th century . Verlag für Bauwesen, 1992, ISBN 3-345-00265-5 .
  • Joachim Fait, Detlef Karg (ed.): Hermann Ludwig Heinrich Prince of Pückler-Muskau, garden art and monument preservation . Böhlau, 1994, ISBN 3-7400-0089-9 .
  • Detlef Karg: On the growth and decay of gardens: a contribution to the relationship between garden monument maintenance and architectural monument maintenance . In: The preservation of monuments. 45, 1996, No. 1.
  • Michaela Aufleger, Detlef Karg, Jürgen Kunow: Preservation of monuments in the state of Brandenburg 1990–2000 . Werner, 2002, ISBN 3-88462-174-2 .
  • Detlef Karg, Hans-Joachim Dreger (arrangement): Peter Joseph Lenné. Parks and gardens in the state of Brandenburg. Catalog raisonné . Werner, 2005, ISBN 3-88462-217-X .
  • Detlef Karg (ed.): Ferdinand von Quast (1807–1877). First Prussian conservator of art monuments . Lukas, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86732-023-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Drachenberg u. a .: Preservation of monuments and society. Detlef Karg on his 65th birthday. Hinstorff 2010, ISBN 978-3-356-01413-6 .
  2. ↑ Peter Fibich: Garden Monument Preservation in the GDR: Structures of Action and Positions in a Subject Area (CGL Studies) . Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft, Munich 2013, p. 229
  3. ↑ Professor Dr. Detlef Karg retired. Website of the Brandenburg Ministry for Science, Research and Culture

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personal data
SURNAME Karg, Detlef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German garden architect, garden historian and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Ketzin , Westhavelland district