The magazine Gartenschönheit 1920-1940 | Lecture with Hannes Rother

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In April 1920, the first issue of Gartenschönheit magazine appeared, conceived and edited by Karl Foerster and Camillo Schneider and published by Oskar Kühl at the specially founded "Verlag für Gartenschönheit".

Foerster had long had the plan to publish a large gardening magazine and in this way reach both the horticultural "enthusiast" and the "expert".

While "competitor" magazines such as Gartenwelt or Möller's Deutsche Gärtnerzeitung were more geared towards professional gardeners and Gartenkunst tended to publish plans and aspects of garden design and primarily appealed to garden architects, Gartenschönheit was able to offer both detailed and often essayistic texts.In addition to detailed, often essayistic texts and observations, Gartenschönheit was able to attract a comparatively wide audience thanks to its extremely high-quality design and layout, such as unprecedented color photos, strikingly large format and an elaborately designed and printed cover page.

Almost all the important gardeners and garden architects of their time contributed articles on plant portraits, the use of plants, garden technology, art, garden history, urban planning and other horticultural and garden design issues.

Gartenschönheit was published under this title until 1940 and was continued as Gartenbau im Reich from 1941 to 1944 before being discontinued completely.

The lecture provides an insight into the thematic diversity, the varied design and not least the quality and beauty of one of the most important German-language garden magazines of the first half of the 20th century through images and text.