Capability Brown

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Capability Brown
Capability Brown, Prior Park near Bath

Capability Brown , actually Lancelot Brown (* 1716 in Kirkharle, Northumberland , † February 6, 1783 in London ) was an English landscape architect .

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Brown is considered to be one of the most important landscape architects of the 18th century. His zealous efforts in finding possibilities (English capabilities ) to remodel existing old gardens in the new style he represented gave him his nickname Capability Brown .

In his creative days he was involved in over 170 horticultural projects and he had a significant influence on the development of the parks in the English style . Brown was a pioneer in landscaping. His gardens are among the first to not only include the immediate surroundings, but also to integrate and help shape the surrounding landscape over a large area; he made the transition from pure palace park architecture to large-scale landscaping. He used the technique of clumps and dots , developed by William Kent , in which a naturally picturesque impression is created on the extensive area through individual trees ( dots , points) and groups of trees ( clumps ) . Huge lawns, which had to be kept low by herds of cattle, were also distinctive for his work. To keep the animals away from the immediate estate, he used a ditch known as Ha-Ha .

His works were not undisputed during his lifetime; the English satirist Richard Owen Cambridge once remarked that he hoped to die before Brown so that he could see the sky before it was remodeled.

Brown's most famous works include the gardens of Blenheim Palace , Bowood House , Broadlands , Charlecote Park , Chatsworth House , Croome Court , Highclere Castle , Kew Gardens , Stowe and Syon House, and in Germany the park of Richmond Castle in Braunschweig .

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

  • Peter Brimacombe: Capability Brown. = The Pitkin Biographical Series . Pitkin Unichrome, Norwich 2001. ISBN 1-84165-039-0
  • David Brown and Tom Williamson: Lancelot Brown and the Capability Men. Landscape Revolution in Eighteenth-century England . Reaction Books, London 2016.
  • Jane Brown: Lancelot "Capability" Brown. The Omnipotent Magician, 1716-1783 . Pimlico, London 2012. ISBN 978-1-84595-179-5 .
  • Joan Clifford: Capability Brown. An Illustrated Life of Lancelot Brown 1716–1783 . Shire Publications, Princes Risborough 1974. ISBN 0-85263-274-6 . Reprint, ibid 2001 = Lifelines No. 33.
  • Thomas Hinde: Capability Brown. The Story of a Master Gardener . Norton, New York NY et al. 1987. ISBN 0-393-02421-0 .
  • Frank Maier-Solgk: The English Embassy. Richmond, Brunswick . In: Die Gartenkunst 28 (2/2017), pp. 243–249.
  • Laura Catherine Mayer: Capability Brown and the English Landscape Garden . Shire Publ., Oxford [a. a.] 2011. ISBN 978-0-7478-1049-0 .
  • Laura Catherine Mayer: England's Green and Pleasant Land: the Landscape Legacy of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown . In: Die Gartenkunst 28 (2/2017), pp. 237–242.
  • Ina Mittelstädt: Brown in Wörlitz and Muskau - on influence and concept changes . In: Die Gartenkunst 28 (2/2017), pp. 262–267.
  • Sarah Rutherford: Capability Brown and His Landscape Gardens . National Trust, Swindon 2016.
  • Stefan Schweizer : The Shakespeare of garden art. A foreword and notes on the English-language Brown literature published in the anniversary year 2016 . In: Die Gartenkunst 28 (2/2017), pp. 229–236.
  • Karin Seeber: The leader of the nation: Lancelot Brown in the English and German garden historiography . In: Die Gartenkunst 28 (2/2017), pp. 320–324.
  • Roger Turner: Capability Brown and the Eighteenth-Century English Landscape . 2nd Edition. Phillimore, Chichester 1999. ISBN 1-86077-114-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Brown, Capability
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brown, Lancelot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English garden architect
DATE OF BIRTH baptized August 30, 1716
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirkharle, Northumberland
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1783
Place of death London