Matthias Charbonnier

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Matthias Charbonnier (* around 1709/1710 in Herrenhausen ; † February 12, 1750 there ) was a garden artist, presumably of French descent.

Life

family

Matthias was the son of Ernst August Charbonnier , nephew of Georg Ludwig Charbonnier and a grandson of Martin Charbonnier .

Career and work

After the death of his father in 1747, Matthias Charbonnier took on the position of court and landscape gardener for the Great Garden in Hanover and the Herrenhausen Gardens .

While the Great Garden was designed by his grandfather in the Dutch style , Matthias got to know the early landscape garden style in England from Charles Bridgeman . A certificate was issued about this in 1738 .

In 1744 Charbonnier undertook another study trip to England together with Friedrich Karl von Hardenberg and Georg Ernst Tatter .

literature

  • A. Rothert, M. Peters: Hannoversche Biographie , Vol. 3: Hanover under the Kurhut, 1646-1815 , Hanover 1916
  • General Artist Lexicon, Vol. 18, pp. 217f.
  • Eduard Schuster: Art and artists in the principalities of Calenberg and Lüneburg in the period from 1636–1727 , Hanover 1905
  • Rainer Schomann (Ed.), Urs Boeck : Historical Gardens in Lower Saxony , catalog for the state exhibition, opening on June 9, 2000 in the foyer of the Lower Saxony State Parliament, on the occasion of the state exhibition "Historical Gardens in Lower Saxony". Hannover, 2000, pp. 75f.
  • Helmut Knocke : Charbonnier. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 84, online via Google books
  • Helmut Knocke: Charbonnier. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 110.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Helmut Knocke: Charbonnier (see literature)
  2. ^ Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen : Since 1689. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 27
personal data
SURNAME Charbonnier, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German horticultural artist of the baroque
DATE OF BIRTH around 1709-1710
PLACE OF BIRTH Herrenhausen
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1750
Place of death Herrenhausen