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Jacob Weidenmann
Pioneer Landscape Architect
Sales Date: 2007-10-31
196 Pages, 9.00 x 11.00 in
The first full biography of a groundbreaking landscape architect
Winner of the Ruth Emery Award by the Victorian Society of America (2008)
Born in Switzerland, Jacob Weidenmann emigrated to the United States in 1856 at the age of twenty-seven after obtaining college-level diplomas in art, architecture, and engineering. The only landscape architect in America so educated, Weidenmann quickly gained a reputation for his excellent design and brilliant solutions to complex engineering and architectural challenges. He developed an important collaboration with Frederick Law Olmsted and became a leading innovator in the field, helping to set standards and design principles for the profession. Based on four decades of research by author Rudy J. Favretti, this is the first comprehensive biography of this major artist, covering his life and career in-depth, and illuminating Weidenmann's importance in defining his profession for future practitioners. Featuring over fifty illustrations, this oversized volume places Jacob Weidenmann in the context of his time, place, and art, and locates him in the pantheon of nineteenth-century designers.
PREFACE
FOREWORD
FORMATIVE YEARS
Young Landscape Architect
Pivotal Years
HARTFORD: PUBLIC WORKS
City Park (Bushnell Park)
Cedar Hill Cemetery
South Green
HARTFORD: PRIVATE COMMISSIONS
Retreat for the Insane (Institute of Living)
Art Teacher
American School for the Deaf
City of Hartford Lithograph
Butler Homestead
Edmund Grant Howe Estate
James Leland Howard Residence
Suburban Villa for Timothy Stanley (New Britain)
Charles L. Brainard Grapery
New Britain Avenue Subdivision
"BEAUTIFYING COUNTRY HOMES"
A handbook with illustrated case studies for planning residential landscapes and some public places
NEW YORK: OLMSTED ALLIANCE
The Olmsted-Weidenmann Alliance
Charles A. Dana Villa Park
"Masquetux," Estate of Henry B. Hyde
Four Government projects: U.S. Capitol, U.S. Quartermaster Depot, Schuylkill Arsenal, Hot Springs Reservation
Congress Park
Cornell University
Other Projects
MIDWEST: IOWA AND CHICAGO
State Capitol, Des Moines
Polk-Hubbell Residential Park
Iowa State Fair Grounds, and Other Projects
Mount Hope Cemetery and Other Projects
"AMERICAN GARDEN ARCHITECTURE" AND "MODERN CEMETERIES"
A compendium of Weidenmann's work presented as a guide for landscaping
a handbook for designing rural cemeteries
NEW YORK: "COMMENCING NEW"
Iowa State Capitol Grounds Completion
Residential Subdivision and Park for Colonel Albert Pope
Concerns of the Profession and Weidenmann's Contributions
AFTERWORD
APPENDICES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
RUDY J. FAVRETTI, Fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects, specializes in landscape history and preservation, and is professor emeritus, University of Connecticut. He is the author of eleven books on various aspects of landscape design and planning, agricultural history, and local history.
"Written with clarity and intelligence, Favretti's deeply informed and lavishly illustrated volume is utterly fascinating. This wonderfully textured portrait of Weidenmann is a book that every student of landscape architecture needs to read. An absolute gem."
~Wendell Garrett, Sotheby's consultant and editor-at-large of The Magazine Antiques
"Professor Favretti has given substance and significance to Jacob Weidenmann—one of the small group that Frederick Law Olmsted considered prime practitioners of his art, and the person who was his valued collaborator during a full decade of practice."
~Charles E. Beveridge, series editor, The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted
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