Idyll and Ideology: Hermann Mattern and the Landscape to Live in
This first English-language biography of Hermann Mattern (1902–1971), one of Germany’s principal twentieth-century landscape architects, critically assesses the idiosyncrasies of his organic-functionalist position while offering a new reading of German garden culture of his time. Mattern’s work embodies several themes of the German landscape discourse as well as the central ambivalence of his generation: a life spanning the artistic avant-garde of the 1920s and an apparently apolitical career under the Nazi regime and in the postwar period. Based on comprehensive archival research, Hopstock’s richly illustrated study uncovers the professional networks, debates, and rivalries that shaped the profession of landscape architecture in Germany during its formative decades.

  • First English biography of landscape architect Hermann Mattern
  • A new reading of German garden culture since 1900
  • Formerly unpublished archival material and illustrations from rare published sources
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Idyll and Ideology: Hermann Mattern and the Landscape to Live in
This first English-language biography of Hermann Mattern (1902–1971), one of Germany’s principal twentieth-century landscape architects, critically assesses the idiosyncrasies of his organic-functionalist position while offering a new reading of German garden culture of his time. Mattern’s work embodies several themes of the German landscape discourse as well as the central ambivalence of his generation: a life spanning the artistic avant-garde of the 1920s and an apparently apolitical career under the Nazi regime and in the postwar period. Based on comprehensive archival research, Hopstock’s richly illustrated study uncovers the professional networks, debates, and rivalries that shaped the profession of landscape architecture in Germany during its formative decades.

  • First English biography of landscape architect Hermann Mattern
  • A new reading of German garden culture since 1900
  • Formerly unpublished archival material and illustrations from rare published sources
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Idyll and Ideology: Hermann Mattern and the Landscape to Live in

Idyll and Ideology: Hermann Mattern and the Landscape to Live in

by Lars Hopstock
Idyll and Ideology: Hermann Mattern and the Landscape to Live in

Idyll and Ideology: Hermann Mattern and the Landscape to Live in

by Lars Hopstock

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This first English-language biography of Hermann Mattern (1902–1971), one of Germany’s principal twentieth-century landscape architects, critically assesses the idiosyncrasies of his organic-functionalist position while offering a new reading of German garden culture of his time. Mattern’s work embodies several themes of the German landscape discourse as well as the central ambivalence of his generation: a life spanning the artistic avant-garde of the 1920s and an apparently apolitical career under the Nazi regime and in the postwar period. Based on comprehensive archival research, Hopstock’s richly illustrated study uncovers the professional networks, debates, and rivalries that shaped the profession of landscape architecture in Germany during its formative decades.

  • First English biography of landscape architect Hermann Mattern
  • A new reading of German garden culture since 1900
  • Formerly unpublished archival material and illustrations from rare published sources

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783986120030
Publisher: JOVIS
Publication date: 06/20/2024
Pages: 400
Product dimensions: 7.48(w) x 11.02(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Lars Hopstock ist Juniorprofessor für Landschaftsarchitektur an der Rheinland-Pfälzischen Technischen Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU). Er verfügt über eine langjährige Berufspraxis und war seit 2010 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an verschiedenen deutschen Universitäten. 2015 promovierte er an der University of Sheffield. Seine Interessen reichen von Naturphilosophie bis zu aktuellen Fragen des urbanen Freiraums. Im Zentrum seiner Forschung steht die Landschaftsarchitektur des 20. Jahrhunderts am Schnittpunkt von Ideen-, Architektur-, Garten- und Kunstgeschichte.


Lars Hopstock is a junior professor of landscape architecture at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU). He has many years of professional practice and has been a research and teaching associate at various German universities since 2010. In 2015, he earned his doctorate from the University of Sheffield. His interests range from the philosophy of nature to current issues of urban open spaces. His research chiefly focuses on the landscape architecture of the twentieth century at the intersection of the history of ideas, architecture, gardens, and art.

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