Johann George Gottlieb Schoch

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Johann George Gottlieb Schoch (born May 1, 1758 in Großkühnau near Dessau , † July 11, 1826 in Wörlitz near Dessau) was a German gardening architect and inspector.

Live and act

Schoch's garden in Wörlitzer Park, named after his father

After Schoch completed his apprenticeship and apprenticeship with his father in Wörlitz , he laid out the landscape garden of Karl Christian von Hoffman, a Prussian university chancellor , between 1778 and 1784 in Dieskau , near Halle . From Leopold III. Friedrich Franz was sent to England and France to study in 1784 in order to “literally study the basics of landscape gardening”. In London he was mainly concerned with modern landscaping by Lancelot Brown , which were in the vicinity of London. After studying the systems, he stayed in Paris for two years , where André Thouin , director of the Jardin des Plantes , noticed him. Thouin noticed Schoch's talent for drawing and hired him as a botanical draftsman .

Schoch not only studied the landscape garden, but also dealt with the garden concept of René Louis de Girardin and with the plants he created in Ermenonville .

Schoch was supposed to take part in a voyage of discovery under Jean-François de La Pérouse as a landscape and plant draftsman, but was not supported by the Prince of Dessau. He was ordered back to Anhalt-Dessau by the Prince in 1788. There he continued his father's work and worked in the romantic part and on the new layout of the Wörlitzer Park . In addition, he expanded the Wörlitz tree nurseries, which under his son, Friedrich Gottlieb Ludwig Schoch, became the first trading centers for foreign wood. He also managed the work in the Kühnau landscape park and the Dessau Georgengarten; in this the brother of Leopold III. Friedrich Franz, Johann Georg von Anhalt-Dessau , build his house and lay out his garden. Schoch based himself on his role model, Brown, and designed the east of the Wörlitz park to be more “scenic and picturesque”, elements of which can also be found in the western part of the park.

Further work

The theater park in Braunschweig

In addition to his work in Dessau, Schoch designed the Duchess Garden in Braunschweig in 1802 , which was later divided into the Theater Park and Museum Park , the Reil Garden in Halle and the Count's Hohenthal Garden in Hohenprießnitz , which has been preserved to this day.

When designing today's museum park, Schoch resorted to stylistic devices that he had already used in Wörlitz. So he designed the park with statues and also used kitchen gardens to design the park.

Schoch as a writer

After his return to Wörlitz, Schoch published the book Attempt at a Guide to Creating a Garden in English Taste in 1794 .

In addition, after 1800 he published various articles in Friedrich Justin Bertuch's garden magazine and the communications of the dendrological society . The topics of these essays were dendrology and garden theories.

family

Johann George Gottlieb Schoch was born as the son of the gardener Johann Leopold Ludwig Schoch and Katharina Maria Adler. In the literature used, however, there are also the name variants Johann George Schoch , Johann Gottlieb Schoch or, to differentiate it from his famous father, Johann George Gottlieb Schoch the Younger .

In 1790 he married Margarete Luise. They had eight children in total; five sons and three daughters. These included the future horticultural artist and dendrologist, Friedlich Gottlieb Ludwig, who was born in 1794, and the wood gardener Wilhelm Ludwig Franz Rudolf, who was born in 1804. One of his daughters, Leopoldine Friedericke Luise, was married to the poet and theater director Friedrich von Matthisson between 1790 and 1824 .

Awards

Schoch became an honorary member of the Berlin Horticultural Association in 1819 .

Fonts

  • An attempt at a guide to creating a garden in the English style. Göschen, Leipzig 1794, ( digitized version ).
  • with August Rode : Description of the Princely Anhalt-Dessau country house and English garden in Wörlitz. Educational Institute, Dessau 1788, ( digitized version ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b Museum Park. In: braunschweig.de. Retrieved September 26, 2015 .
  2. ^ A b Gardens and Parks in the Braunschweiger Land: Museum Park. In: gaerten-parks.de. Retrieved September 26, 2015 .
  3. The Theater Park. (PDF) In: braunschweig.de. Retrieved September 26, 2015 .
  4. ^ Franz Bosbach, Gert Gröning (ed.): Landscape gardens of the 18th and 19th centuries. Examples of German-British cultural transfers. = Landscape gardens in the 18th and 19th centuries. Examples of British-German cultural transfer (= Prince Albert Studies. Volume 26). KG Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-21426-4 , p. 23, ( books.google.de ).
  5. Schoch, Johann Leopold in der Deutschen Biographie , accessed on September 26, 2015.
  6. Schoch, Johann George in der Deutschen Biographie , accessed on September 26, 2015.