Idyll and Ideology : : Hermann Mattern and the Landscape to Live In / / Lars Hopstock.

Diese erste englischsprachige Biografie zu Hermann Mattern (1902–1971), einer Schlüsselfigur der Landschaftsarchitektur des 20. Jahrhunderts, setzt sich kritisch mit den Eigenheiten seiner organisch-funktionalistischen Entwurfshaltung auseinander und bietet dabei eine neue Lesart der deutschen Garte...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin : : JOVIS, , [2024]
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Year of Publication:2024
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.) :; 348 farb. und s/w Abb.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Tendencies in Modern Garden Art. The Architectonic and the Landscape Modes c. 1895–1933
  • Part I Early Influences 1902–c. 1930
  • Learning to See: A Wandervogel Youth in the Land of Fables
  • Becoming a Landscape Architect in Germany in the 1920s
  • Confidante and Counterpart: Herta Hammerbacher
  • Bauhaus, Expressionism and the Empathic: Early Influences and the Golden Twenties
  • Tête-à-Tête with Flora: Karl Foerster and the New Take on Plants
  • Part II Continuities Across Systems 1927–c. 1960
  • Genesis of the New Landschaftlichkeit: The ‘Bornim’ Label in the Context of Interwar Garden Design
  • ‘Politically Unsound’: Mattern and the Nazis
  • ‘Obsolete Individualism’: The Killesberg Park Between Reverence and Rejection
  • Working Towards the Führer (?): Mattern’s War Career
  • Atmosphere of Departure and Disillusionment: Postwar Art and Life
  • Part III The New Landscape Consciousness c. 1950–1971
  • The ‘Landscape for Living’ and Its Limits of Resilience
  • International Orientation and Retrospection: The Later Years
  • Epilogue ‘ Freedom within Limitations’
  • Appendix
  • Glossary
  • Acronyms
  • Index
  • Bibliography
  • Imprint