Dessau-Wörlitzer Gartenreich
The International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens 1997
edited by Domenico Luciani with Patrizia Boschiero and Luigi Latini
Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche
Treviso 1997
40 pages
45 illustrations in colour and 13 black and white
out of print
The extraordinary Dessau-Wörlitzer Gartenreich, the “realm of gardens”, is situated within an area of some 300 square kilometres on the left bank of the River Elbe near the city of Dessau.
Commissioned by Prince Leopold Friedrich Franz von Anhalt-Dessau (1740-1817), the work took over half a century from 1764 and involved a large circle of architects, agronomists, gardeners and decorators as well as a Europe-wide network of intellectuals, travellers and correspondents.
Contents
Motivazione della giuria
Ludwig Trauzettel,Wörlitz: l’Inghilterra in Germania
Domenico Luciani, Drehberg e i suoi compagni nel regno dei giardini
Schede: Wörlitz, Oranienbaum, Luisium e Sieglitzer Berg
Jost Albert, Riqualificazione, rinnovo e “abbellimento” della campagna nel Gartenreich
Antje Volmer, Le virtù del Gartenreich
Bibliografia
