Idyll and Ideology
Hopstock, Lars
This first English 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 German landscape discourse as well as the central ambivalence of his generation: a life spanning the artistic avant-garde of the 1920...