Gustav Hermann Krumbiegel

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Bust of Gustav Hermann Krumbiegel in Pillnitz Castle / Neues Palais

Gustav Hermann Krumbiegel (born December 18, 1865 in Lohmen ; † February 8, 1956 in Bangalore , Karnataka ) was a German botanist and garden architect who was best known as the director of the Lal Bagh Botanical Gardens in Bangalore.

Live and act

After completing school in Wilsdruff and Dresden , Krumbiegel completed an apprenticeship in horticulture in Pillnitz . In 1884 he worked in the administration for fruit and horticulture in Schwerin . From 1885 to 1887 he worked as a landscape gardener in Hamburg. In 1888 Krumbiegel moved to England, where he initially designed flower beds in Hyde Park and from 1890 to 1893 worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . He also took courses at the South Kensington School , where he was awarded prizes and certificates for geometry and perspective drawing. In 1893 Krumbiegel became curator at the Government Botanical Gardens, Ooty, where he was responsible for the architectural redesign and had fountains, bridges and pavilions built.

In 1896 Krumbiegel married Kate Evans from England. From 1908 to 1932 Krumbiegel was chief gardener and director of the Lal Bagh Botanical Gardens in Bangalore with the exception of the years of World War I , during which he was interned in an Indian camp . With the design of the botanical gardens and the creation of avenues , he significantly promoted Bangalore's reputation as a garden city.

On the occasion of the 150th birthday a special exhibition "The gardener of the Maharajas. A Saxon enchants India" took place in the New Palace and in the Park of Pillnitz in 2016.

literature

  • Cobjeeveram Hayavadana Rao (Ed.) The Indian Biographical Dictionary 1915 . Pillar & Co., Madras, 1915. p. 246. Online
  • LAL-Baugh: Journal of the Mysore Horticultural Society, Issue 1, 1956. (Obituary)
  • Stefan Locke: Blooming landscapes. Gustav-Hermann Krumbiegel is famous in Bangalore in India. Now it is also being discovered in Germany , in: FAZ, October 22, 2016, p. 9. Online

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Special exhibition in Pillnitz. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; accessed on December 21, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schloesserland-sachsen.de
personal data
SURNAME Krumbiegel, Gustav Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krumbiegel, Gustav Herman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German garden architect and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Lohmen , Germany
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1956
Place of death Bangalore , Karnataka , India