Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell
( Clarus ) Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell (* September 13 1750 in Weilburg an der Lahn, † February 24, 1823 in Munich), knighted at the age of 58 years, was a German horticulturist, founder of the " classical phase " of the English landscape garden in Germany and town planners in Munich.
Education and work
Sckell was trained in the Hofgärtnerei in Schwetzingen near Mannheim. He then worked in Bruchsal, Paris and Versailles. From 1773 to 1777 he worked in England with landscape gardens in the English style. After his return he designed in the Aschaffenburg Schönbusch for the Elector of Mainz and Archbishop Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal into an English landscape garden around, as the park Schoental. Subsequently, he was involved in the redesign of parts of the Schwetzingen Baroque garden in a landscape park and was commissioned in 1789 by Count Benjamin Thompson Rumford with the system of the English Garden in Munich.
Subsequently, he was in 1792 succeeded his father as head gardener in Schwetzingen. In 1799 he also received the position of the garden director for the Electoral Palatinate and Bavaria gardens. In 1804 he was artistic director Hofgarten in Munich, where he completed the English Garden and turned large parts of the baroque garden of Nymphenburg castle in a landscape plant. In Munich he worked with the architect Gustav von dominance in planning, particularly the horticultural design of urban expansion in the course of the sun road, Karlsplatz, Sendlinger and Isartorplatz.
In 1808 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Bavarian civil crown, with which it was connected to the personal nobility.
His daughter Theres (1800-1853) married his nephew and successor, Carl August Sckell. His daughter Friederike (1802-1867) married Carl Rottmann.
Works
The following list gives an overview of the most famous gardens, which has designed Sckell:
Sckell plan for reshaping the landscape of the Castle Park Nymphenburg, about 1802
Sckell plan to landscape transformation of a former monastery garden Amorbach, 1803
Importance
Sckell regarded as the founder of the classical phase of the English landscape garden in Germany, he also introduced the German professional audience with his writing contributions to the visual art of gardening by 1818. His grouping and planting way is still applied in landscape gardens in Germany in part today.
In 1808 he was admitted as an associate member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Ludwig died in 1823 of Sckell in Munich as a backyard director. In his honor, a monument to him in the English Garden was built.
The Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts awards since 1967 every two years, the Friedrich -Ludwig -von- Sckell Ring of Honor to deserving landscape architects, garden historians or people from related professions.
Publications
- Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell: Contributions to the visual art of gardening for aspiring landscape artist, 2nd edition 1825 ( digitized ) - Reproduction: Werner, Worms 1998, ISBN 3-88462-150-5
Movies
- Strolling in Sckell gardens, BR 2000, A film documentary by Bernhard Graf