Louis Paul Zocher
Louis Paul Zocher (born August 10, 1820 in Haarlem , † September 7, 1915 ibid) was a Dutch (landscape) architect and the son of the architect Jan David Zocher (1791-1870).
Life
Louis Paul Zocher was the third and last generation of architects and landscape architects for the Zocher family. He did an apprenticeship in his father's company and worked with his father until his death in 1870, after which he continued his work.
Zocher married Wilhelmina Geertruida Santbergen (1828–1862) on May 31, 1855, with whom he had a son and two daughters. His son Jan David died in 1862 at the age of just three years, and his wife also died a few months later.
On March 3, 1881, he married Anna Maria Henrika Elizabeth Wellan (1840-1920) for the second time. This marriage remained childless.
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Together with his father, Zocher designed the Rotterdam park Het Park in 1852 and the Amsterdam Vondelpark in 1864 .
In 1869 Zocher and his colleague JJ Kerbert founded a tree nursery in Haarlem, in which his daughters Maria and Johanna also worked. Maria died in 1875 at the age of 19.
His most important works were his villa parks: in his hometown of Haarlem alone he designed three larger parks: Frederikspark, Haarlem's first villa park and Kenaupark in the center of the city, which he had designed together with his father, the Florapark in 1873 (where he built his in 1885 own Villa Flora built) and Staten Bolwerk, in 1879 the Ripperdapark followed. In 1890 he was commissioned to restructure Frederikspark and in 1880 he designed the Frans Halsplein.
After taking over the care and supervision of the Haarlemmer forest planned by his father from his father , he was entrusted with the design of the adjacent Haagsche Bos in The Hague in 1877 .
In 1882 he designed the Agnetapark in Delft and in 1885 the garden of the Teylers Museum , the oldest museum in the Netherlands. From 1880 to 1890 he worked on the design of the Westerveld cemetery in Driehuis ( Velsen ), which is one of the oldest private cemeteries in the Netherlands.
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| SURNAME | Zocher, Louis Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch landscape architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Haarlem |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1915 |
| Place of death | Haarlem |