Gustav Lange (landscape architect)

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Gustav Lange (* 1938 ) is a German landscape architect and emeritus professors .

life and work

Gustav Lange studied at the Kassel Art College . In 1969 he and Hinnerk Wehberg founded an office for garden and landscape architecture in Hamburg. From 1989 to 2003, Lange was a professor at the University of Kassel .

Lange erected a wooden “staircase to nowhere” on Königsplatz in Kassel for documenta IX , which Lord Mayor Georg Lewandowski had torn down on August 27, 2000 - in order to keep an election promise from 1993. The Kassel district court then imposed fines on the mayor, the legal department and the building department.

According to a design by Lange, the first half of the Mauerpark in Berlin was completed in 1994 . In the inner courtyards of Building 4 on the former Narva site in Berlin-Friedrichshain , Gustav Lange had large fountains made of freshwater tufa built.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ taz Lange  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on September 21, 2018@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.taz.de  
  2. ^ Judgment on the Königsplatz in Kassel . BauNetz, August 23, 2000 (accessed September 21, 2018)
  3. ↑ After the "documenta" staircase was torn down: Fine for the mayor . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 19, 2002
  4. ↑ Magazine Forum From Death Strip to Hotspot , accessed on September 21, 2018.
  5. ↑ Landscape architecture today, Mauerpark , accessed on September 21, 2018.
  6. ↑ Friedrichshain Tufa in Oberbaum City , accessed on September 21, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Lange, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1938