Gunnar Martinsson

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Gunnar Martinsson (born December 23, 1924 in Stockholm ; † September 21, 2012 ) was a Swedish garden architect who worked as a university teacher in Karlsruhe .

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Rastatt Palace Gardens

After an apprenticeship as a gardener and training at the horticultural school in Stockholm, Martinsson completed internships with garden architects Otto Valentien in Stuttgart, Robert Feller in Bern and Michele Busiri-Vici in Rome. He then worked in the office of the Stockholm garden architect Sven Hermelin. From 1958 to 1960 he studied at the art academy in Stockholm , but in 1957 he opened his own planning office in Stockholm. Gunnar Martinsson achieved international renown with his contribution to the International Horticultural Exhibition IGA 1963 in Hamburg, where he designed the Swedish pavilion and garden. In doing so, he secured a place in the history of garden architecture alongside internationally known landscape architects such as Roberto Burle Marx from Brazil, Pietro Porcinai from Italy, Ernst Cramer from Switzerland and Meto Vroom from the Netherlands, all of whom were involved in IGA 63.

Villa in Norrköping

In 1965 Martinsson was appointed to the newly established Chair of Landscape and Garden at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Karlsruhe . Through his teaching activities, the projects he carried out and his participation in numerous jury committees, he gained considerable influence in the 1970s and 1980s and brought an important impetus from Scandinavia to Germany with his special understanding of garden and landscape architecture. After his retirement in 1992, Gunnar Martinsson moved to Malmö and into his country house on the island of Ven in the Öresund . The Swiss landscape architect Dieter Kienast succeeded Martinsson at the University of Karlsruhe.

The garden of Rastatt Castle, which was redesigned from 1979 to 1988, is one of the most famous works by Martinsson .

Petershausen inner courtyard

In 1990 Martinsson designed the inner courtyard of the former Petershausen monastery in Konstanz , now the Archaeological State Museum of Baden-Württemberg , based on the garden design of the baroque monastery cloisters. In 2018, the northern half of this facility was removed in order to gain space for urban horticulture .

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  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ www.Schloss-Rastatt.de : The castle garden (official website of the SSG for the Raststatter castle )
  3. ^ Karl Ludwig: Rastatt Palace Gardens. 100 years of landscape architecture. Association of German Landscape Architects, accessed on February 28, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Martinsson, Gunnar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish landscape architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 2012