Gudmund Nyeland Brandt

Gudmund Nyeland Brandt ( born March 17, 1878 in Frederiksberg, † April 30, 1945 in Ordrup ) was a Danish gardeners and landscape architect. He designed gardens of all kinds, including cemeteries, playgrounds and public green spaces. Its objective style was required (city ) planning and garden craft expediency.

Background and education

Brandt was the son of Peter Brandt ( died 1918), a market gardener, and his wife Anne (nee Nyeland, died 1918). Brandt attended high school in Ordrup. After an apprenticeship in a nursery in Valby 1899 to 1901 he continued his education continued outside Denmark: 1901 and 1902 he lived in England, 1903 in Paris (Jardin des Plantes ). He returned to Denmark and worked from 1906 for local government Gentofte as a gardener.

From 1906 ( to 1914 ) Brandt also had its own planning office. 1906 and 1907 he was editor of the gardening magazine Gartner Tidende. He married in 1909 Gerda Petersen ( 1880-1941 ), daughter of a commercial gardener. Brandt stated gardening creative tasks of any kind: villa gardens, sports fields and playgrounds, grave designs, small garden and simple roofs in residential areas.

Brandt was an innovator of the contemporary Danish garden architecture in the wake of August Henrik Flindt. In Germany, among others, Ferdinand Tutenberg similar design solutions developed.

Projects (selection)

  • Ordrup Kirkegård, extensions (1910-1927)
  • Hellerup Park beach, Hellerup (1912-1918)
  • Brandt's private garden, Ordrup, with white and yellow flower beds (1926 )
  • Marienlyst, Helsingør, redesign of the park (1919-1920)
  • Mariebjerg Kirkegård, Gentofte, cemetery design (1926-1936)
  • Villa garden for Vagn Carl Jacobsen, Rungsted (1925-1927; destroyed)
  • Vindbyholt, garden Else Krak (1928 )
  • Zoologischer Garten Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, redesign (1934 )
  • Roof garden Radiohuset, Copenhagen (1940-1941; expanded 1956-1957 by Palle Schmidt)
  • Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, terrace with fountain (1943 )

In addition, Brandt 1915, published a book on perennial crops ( Stauder, en Vejledning for Have Venner ), which underwent three editions and wrote contributions for journals. He taught garden art from 1924 to 1941 at the School of Architecture Academy of Art in Copenhagen. In 1929 he became a Knight of the Dannebrog. It was in 1937 for the design of Mariebjerg Kirkegård with the Eckerberg Medal and 1945 with the CF Hansen medal. Brandt was buried after his death in 1945 in the cemetery of Ordrup.

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