Leonard Anthony Springer

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Leonard Anthony Springer

Leonhard Anthony Springer (born January 24, 1855 in Amsterdam , † September 28, 1940 in Haarlem ) was one of the most important landscape architects in Dutch gardening in the 19th and 20th centuries.

biography

Springer was the son of the important Dutch painter Cornelius Springer (1817-1891) from Amsterdam. He initially trained as a gardener. After graduating, he made a name for himself as a landscape gardener and was a freelance architect in Haarlem . Among other things, he designed the horticultural facilities for the Haveke winery in Gektiven . At the end of the 19th century he received only a few commissions and he worked as a teacher for a long time. From 1912 to 1922 his office worked closely with the architect Johan Wilhelm Hanrath. In the 1920s he helped found associations and associations of Dutch garden architects.

In Springer's understanding, precise knowledge of the historical development of garden art and the associated materials was a must for every garden architect. A garden architect, working according to his own ideas and taste, should in spite of all that subordinate his personality to nature.

Springer can be seen as one of the last and most important representatives of the Dutch landscape style.

He left his large library, unique in Europe (over 700 garden books, some from the early 17th century), his herbarium, his design drawings, old prints, photographs and other materials to the then State Agricultural University (predecessor of today's Wageningen University ) in Wageningen . The books now form the basis of the “TUiN” (= “GARdeN”, Garden Architecture Archives of the Netherlands) collection, and the herbarium became part of the “Herbarium Vadense” in Wageningen.

Works

(Selection)

  • The landscape park of the estate het Haveke in Eefde , based on the English model in 1916/1917, is his work and its layout has been almost completely preserved.
  • Another plant is the Rijsterborgherpark in Deventer .
  • The Oosterpark in the Oosterparkbuurt district in Amsterdam-Oost .
  • The city park in Groningen

literature

  • Constance DH Moes; Anne Mieke Backer, Erik de Jong, Carla S. Oldenburger-Ebbers (Red.): LA Springer: tuinarchitect, dendroloog, verzamelaar , Rotterdam: de Hef Publishers, 2002, ISBN 90-6906-035-3

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personal data
SURNAME Springer, Leonard Anthony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Springer, Leonhard Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch garden architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1940
Place of death Haarlem