Jacob Weidenmann
Swiss landscape architect (1829–1893)
Jacob Weidenmann (August 22, 1829 – February 6, 1893) was an landscape architect from Switzerland known for his design of rural cemeteries and public parks.
Biography
Weidenmann was born in Winterthur , Switzerland on August 22, 1829. [1] He was educated at the Akademie der bildenden Künste , Vienna, where he studied art, architecture, engineering, and botany. [2]
After graduating, he worked in Munich , Paris , London , New York City , Panama , and Peru , [2] before settling in the United States in 1856. In 1861 he was named first superintendent of parks in Hartford, Connecticut , where he designed Bushnell Park and Cedar Hill Cemetery . Beginning in 1874 he shared an office with Frederick Law Olmsted , and they subsequently collaborated on projects including Mount Royal Park in Montreal and the Washington, D.C. Capitol grounds. [2]
Weidenmann's Hartford designs include grounds for the American School for the Deaf , Bushnell Park , the Butler-McCook Homestead gardens, Cedar Hill Cemetery , and the Institute of Living . His Midwest designs include the Iowa State Capitol grounds [2] [3] and Chicago's Mount Hope Cemetery . His national work includes landscape designs for the United States Capitol , U.S. Quartermaster Depot, Schuylkill Arsenal , and Hot Springs Reservation.
He died on February 6, 1893, and was interred at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut. [4]
Legacy
Harvard University established the Jacob Weidenmann prize which is awarded annually to landscape architecture students who show outstanding ability and talent in landscape design. [5]
Bibliography
- Beautifying country homes , Orange Judd, New York, 1870. Reprinted as Victorian Landscape Gardening: A Facsimile of Jacob Weidenmann's Beautifying country homes , American Life Foundation for the Athenaeum Library of Nineteenth Century America, 1978. ISBN 0-89257-021-0 .
- Modern cemeteries. An essay upon the improvements and proper management of rural cemeteries , The Monumental news, Chicago, c1888.
References
- ↑ Newton, Norman T. (1971). Design on the Land: The Development of Landscape Architecture . p. 308. ISBN 0-674-19870-0 . Retrieved 7 March 2020 .
- 1 2 3 4 Favretti, Rudy J. "Frederick Law Olmsted's 'Other Partner': Jacob Weidenmann". Excerpted from a talk given on December 2, 1999. The Connecticut Landscape Architect . Spring 2000. p. 6. Connecticut Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. ctasla.org. Retrieved July 26, 2019.
- ↑ The Iowa State Capitol Grounds 1913 Extension and Reconstruction Project. Library of Congress Call Number: NA 4412.I8 C76 2013.
- ↑ "Jacob Weidenmann (1829-1893)" . www.cedarhillfoundation.org . Retrieved 7 March 2020 .
- ↑ "Jacob Weidenmann Prize" . www.gsd.harvard.edu . Retrieved 7 March 2020 .
Further reading
- Favretti, Rudy J. Jacob Weidenmann: Pioneer Landscape Architect . Wesleyan University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-8195-6847-3 .
External links
- Jacob Weidenmann at Find a Grave
- The Connecticut Landscape Architect, Spring 2000
- Bushnell Park biography
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