Piet Oudolf

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Piet Oudolf (born October 27, 1944 in Haarlem ) is a Dutch landscape gardener .

Park on Skärholmen, Stockholm

Life

Piet Oudolf originally worked in his parents' restaurant as a waiter and bartender, later as a fishmonger and steel worker. At the age of 25 he started working for a garden designer and eventually designed gardens himself. In 1977 he and his wife Anja founded a garden design company in Haarlem and the Future Plants company that grows ornamental plants for parks and green spaces. A visit to Beth Chatto in Essex encouraged him to run a gardening business himself. The couple opened the De Koesterd ornamental nursery in Hummelo in Gelderland in 1982 . They initially obtained plants from Ernst Pagels in East Friesland and from Beth Chatto. Oudolf later had his own experimental fields, which were cultivated by a local farmer, and collected plant seeds in the Balkans.

The company was closed on November 15, 2010. Since then, Oudolf has only worked as a garden designer. Oudolf and his wife temporarily lived in a farmhouse from the 1850s that they renovated. The garden of his private house in Hummelo 30 km west of Arnhem can no longer be visited from October 28, 2018.

style

Oudolf was initially strongly influenced by Mien Ruys , but around 1990 he turned to a more natural style ("New wave planting"). The prairie plantings of the North American New Perennial Style by Wolfgang Oehme , and ecological gardens in the Hermannshof exhibition and viewing garden in Weinheim and Weihenstephan were the inspiration here. Among the garden designers who influenced him, Oudolf names Karl Foerster in particular , but also Rob Leopold , Henk Gerritsen , Cassian Schmidt and Dan Pearson . The Hesmerg Garden stands at the transition between Oudolf's early and later styles. His current style is called "New Naturalism" ( New Naturalism described). He lists Rick Darkes' The Encyclopedia of Grasses for Livable Landscapes as his favorite book. John Brookes places him in the tradition of Karl Foerster .

Oudolf mainly uses grasses and shrubs in his gardens. For him, grasses bring spontaneity and wildness into the garden. He doesn't see a garden as a decoration, but as a process. Its gardens should be effective all year round, including in winter. In general, his gardens look best in late summer and autumn. Perennials with dramatic seed heads are therefore preferred to be planted and not cut back in autumn, the decay of plants also serves as a design element. Flowering plants are not necessarily in the foreground, but Oudolf attaches great importance to coordinated colors. Although Oudolf considers colors to be less important than structure, his gardens can usually be recognized by the characteristic combinations of purple, purple and orange as well as the various shades of brown.

Oudolf is interested in how a garden functions as an ecosystem and how natural plant communities can be mimicked here. He considers color to be of secondary importance.

He also uses formal, trimmed hedges made of yew or boxwood in the neo-formalist style, which, however, often have a wavy end (Hummelo, Thews garden) and thus appear looser. This style is now being imitated ad nauseam. In Hummelo, he also planted columns of pruned yew trees, and in the Boon Garden, large blocks of precisely pruned yew trees. Roy Strong called this style "skewed baroque ". In the meantime, Oudolf has removed both the central yew hedges (1996) and the undulating hedges at the end of the garden and replaced the lawn with borders with annual plants (2003).

His first English garden was created in 1996 in Bury Court in northern Hampshire as a show garden for John Cokes nursery Green Farm Plants . He should show the customer the variety of plants on offer and their possible uses. This makes the garden very unusual for Oudolf, as it contains many more different species than he usually uses in his more recent work. The garden contains a pond and a small gravel garden. The garden was unusual by English standards, as it contained a lot of grass - miscanthus , turf smut and the feather grass Stipa gigantea . For Tim Richardson, it marks the moment when the trend-setting austerity of modernism was softened by the allure of large flower areas and naturalistic sensibility, and at the same time the English tradition of the romantic country house garden was attacked. The garden became a magnet for English people interested in modern garden design. The nursery closed in 2004 and since then the garden has only been open to the public a few days a year.

Most of Oudolf's gardens are located in the maritime influenced climate zone in Western Europe and the USA. However, he also laid out Mediterranean gardens, such as a garden in Barcelona (2007), where he mainly worked with cypresses and grasses. Noel Kingsbury sees this as the long overdue introduction of modern gardens to the Mediterranean, where "outdated neoclassicism " still dominates.

Fixed installations often use round paths, as in Hummelo and Bury Court, round water surfaces, as in the Thews-Garten in Schleswig-Holstein, Bänke (Einköping), which was laid out in 1996, or round borders, as in Bad Driburg or the newly laid out garden in Hummelo.

plants

Oudolf likes to use tall grass such as turf , pipe grass and autumn head grass . Among the perennials he prefers Red Wasserdost , coneflower , Fettehenne , catnip , Kerzenknöterich , Kleinblütiger thimble and Astrantia major . He introduced many plants from the North American prairie to Europe, in particular the popularity of the coneflower is due to him. He even propagates the annoying neophyte golden rue as a garden plant.

Oudolf usually plants 70% tall perennials and grasses and 30% low flowering plants as "filler plants".

reception

In the English-speaking world, Oudolf was best known through the book Designing with Plants , the text of which comes largely from the British garden writer Noel Kingsbury . The conservative historian Robin Lane Fox, however, compares Oudolf's style with the verge of freeways and finds it only suitable for brownfield sites. There are too few flowering plants and he neglects to ensure beauty. The Wall Street Journal called him the "rock star" among garden designers. For the garden designer Thomas Rainer , nostalgia is the determining element in the design of the Oudolf gardens. John Brookes classifies him, along with Henk Gerritsen , Ton ter Linden , Penelope Hobhouse , Nori and Sandra Pope, as “colorists” whose gardens are characterized by attention to ecological issues and combinations of plant colors, “often to the point of excluding all other plant properties such as shape , Leaf shape, leaf structure, fruit and seasonal aspects ”. Brookes believes this style is not suitable for England. It was made popular mainly by photographers, but difficult to imitate for the average gardener.

Gardens

Berne Park in Ebel in Bottrop-Süd on the site of a former sewage treatment plant

Germany

Graflicher Garten Bad Driburg

Republic of Ireland

  • Country Cork Garden, 5500 m²

Italy

Netherlands

  • Boon garden, Oostzaan , 2000, 2500 m²
  • Hesmerg garden, Sneek , 350 m². The garden of a row house is structured by a central strip with boxwood squares. It has strictly cut hedges, a rectangular lawn and a system of paths made of bricks, which gives it a very formal style despite the rich planting of an elongated border.
  • Private garden in Hummelo, from 1982, 10,000 m², could be visited as the show garden of his nursery until 2018.
  • Mahlerplein , Amsterdam
  • van-Abe Museum , Eindhoven
  • Witteveen garden, Rotterdam

Sweden

  • City park in Enköping 1996-2003, 4000 m²
  • Perennparken on Skärholm, Stockholm 2012, 7500 m², with Stefan Mattson from Svenska Bostäder

United States

High Line Park, New York
Lurie Gardens, Chicago

United Kingdom

Scampston Garden, Scampston, England

Works

species

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cynthia Kling: Garden Guru Piet Oudolf: Digging into the mind behind some of the world's top plots (interview),
  2. ↑ a b c d Sally McGrane 2008, A Landscape in Winter, dying heroically (interview)
  3. ↑ a b Stephanie Mahon: Man of mystery. (Interview) In: The English Garden. December 2012, p. 114.
  4. ^ Noel Kingsbury (2003): Designing borders . London, Cassell Illustrated, p. 140 ( ISBN 1844030105 )
  5. ^ Noel Kingsbury (2003): Designing borders . London, Cassell Illustrated, p. 141
  6. ^ Noel Kingsbury (2003): Designing borders . London, Cassell Illustrated, p. 139
  7. ↑ Piet Oudolf tuinarchitect HUMMELO IS DEFINITIEF GESLOTEN ( Memento from December 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ FAZ January 4, 2015 p. V7: The master of the perennials
  9. ↑ FAZ.net October 11, 2018
  10. ^ Piet Oudolf, Noel Kingsbury: Landscapes in Landscapes. Thames and Hudson, London 2011, p. 10; Noel Kingsbury: Garden Designers at home, the private spaces of the world's leading designers. Pavilion, London 2011, p. 146.
  11. ^ Fran Sorin, Piet Oudolf - Rhythms of Nature: Where Ecology Meets Design. Ecology, September 20, 2011, http://www.ecology.com/2011/09/20/piet-oudolf-ecology-meets-design/
  12. ^ Piet Oudolf, Noel Kingsbury: Landscapes in Landscapes. Thames and Hudson, London 2011, p. 10.
  13. ↑ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703421204576327252638228590.html#
  14. ↑ John Brookes, Garden Masterclass. London, Dorling Kindersley 2002, 261 ff
  15. ↑ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703421204576327252638228590.html#
  16. ^ Fran Sorin, Piet Oudolf - Rhythms of Nature: Where Ecology Meets Design. Ecology, September 20, 2011, http://www.ecology.com/2011/09/20/piet-oudolf-ecology-meets-design/
  17. ↑ James van Sweden and Thomas Christopher, The Artful Garden. Creative inspiration for Landscape design. New York, Random House 2011, 140
  18. ^ "Wonky baroque", Noel Kingsbury: Garden Designers at home, the private spaces of the world's leading designers. Pavilion, London 2011, p. 146.
  19. ^ Noel Kingsbury: Garden Designers at home, the private spaces of the world's leading designers. Pavilion, London 2011, p. 147.
  20. ^ Noel Kingsbury: Garden Designers at home, the private spaces of the world's leading designers. Pavilion, London 2011, p. 153.
  21. ^ Tim Richardson, The new English garden. London, Francis Lincoln 2013, 287
  22. ^ Tim Richardson, The new English garden. London, Francis Lincoln 2013,290
  23. ↑ "As a whole, the garden represents the moment when the directive rigor of modernism began to be invaded by the allure of big planting and naturlaist sensibilities ..." Tim Richardson, The new English garden. London, Francis Lincoln 2013, 290
  24. ^ Tim Richardson, The new English garden. London, Francis Lincoln 2013, 290
  25. ^ Tim Richardson, The new English garden. London, Francis Lincoln 2013, 287
  26. ↑ http://www.burycourtbarn.com/gardens/
  27. ^ Piet Oudolf, Noel Kingsbury: Landscapes in Landscapes. Thames and Hudson, London 2011, p. 14.
  28. ^ Piet Oudolf, Noel Kingsbury: Landscapes in Landscapes. Thames and Hudson, London 2011, pp. 20-21.
  29. ^ Noel Kingsbury: Garden Designers at home, the private spaces of the world's leading designers. Pavilion, London 2011, p. 151.
  30. ^ Noel Kingsbury: The Ghost in the Machine. Grounded Design Blog, April 4, 2013 (English).
  31. ↑ Rock'n'Roll in the garden. Die Welt , April 20, 2014.
  32. ↑ Garden Guru Piet Oudolf. Wall Street Journal , May 21, 2011.
  33. ↑ Garden Designer's Roundtable: Memory and Plants. Grounded Design Blog, November 27, 2012 (English).
  34. ^ A b John Brookes: Garden Masterclass. London, Dorling Kindersley 2002, p. 269.
  35. ↑ John Brookes: Garden Masterclass. P. 270.
  36. ^ Piet Oudolf, Noel Kingsbury: Landscapes in Landscapes. Thames and Hudson, London 2011, p. 50.
  37. ↑ The Master of the Perennials in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from January 4, 2015, page V7
  38. ↑ James van Sweden and Thomas Christopher, The Artful Garden. Creative inspiration for Landscape design. New York, Random House 2011, 138
  39. ↑ http://www.luriegarden.org/about-lurie-garden
  40. ^ Piet Oudolf Millennium Garden. Pensthorpe Natural Park (English).
  41. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.luriegarden.org
  42. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/10465717/Royal-surprise-for-a-Dutch-master-plantsman.html
  43. ^ Piet Oudolf: Landscapes In Landscapes. ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thamesandhudson.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Thames & Hudson, 2011, blurb

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personal data
SURNAME Oudolf, Piet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch landscape gardener
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Haarlem