Fredrik Magnus Piper

Background and education

Fredrik Magnus Piper came from a noble family, which originally came from Lübeck to Sweden. Piper was the authoritative representative of the landscape architecture of his time in Sweden. He was the first properly trained landscape architect in his country. He received his education 1773-1780 during the study tours mainly in France, Italy and England. In England, he worked temporarily at the Scottish architect William Chambers, the designer of Kew Gardens in London. The English landscape park with its organic, preserving forms, was high fashion in Europe at this time, Pieper impressed deeply. From his travels, he brought a large number of sketches and drawings to take home and it was he who introduced the idea of ​​the English landscape parks in Sweden.

Life and work

The Swedish King Gustav III. was done to the English Garden and Piper made ​​his court architect, responsible for the royal pleasure gardens. In 1781 Piper presented a general plan for an English park, the Haga Park, in the municipality of Solna near Stockholm. The design of the Hagaparks has been completed according to his plans and is now a popular tourist destination. 1777 Piper got the contract to expand the Baroque garden of Drottningholm Palace with an English park to the north. 1786, the Turkish kiosk was built according to his plans in the Haga Park. Other works include, inter alia, the unfinished Tivoliparken am See Brunnsviken in Stockholm in 1786, the Bellevue Parking in the north of Stockholm, the English Park with Forsmarks ironworks and the Villa Liston Hill in neoclassicism on Djurgården in Stockholm from 1791. In 1799, Piper was named director of the school of architecture at the Kungliga Academies för de fria konsterna ( royal Academy of Arts ) in Stockholm appointed.

Today, a park and a street in the town of Solna that bear his name remember to Fredrik Magnus Piper.