GESAH – Garden Design

Indexing of horticultural prints from the Albrecht Haupt Collection

Facts

Management

Dr. Hedda Saemann

Team

Dr. Annika Wellmann-Stühring

Funding

Nds. Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur (MWK)

Duration

July 2017 – November 2017

The Albrecht Haupt Collection is one of the nationally significant special collections of the TIB. It was compiled by the architect and building researcher Karl Albrecht Haupt (1852-1932), who taught at the Technical University of Hanover for many years, and contains a remarkable collection of single folios.  

Due to the unchanged high relevance of this collection for research in art history and the interdisciplinary research interest in horticultural art motifs, the subject indexing of the folios with regard to gardens and garden art according to today's standards of library and art studies is carried out within the scope of the project. It constitutes a first important step towards a sustainable visualisation and improvement of the collection's scholarly usability in accordance with the recommendations of the DFG and the German Council of Science and Humanities.

Description

Within the technically and thematically broad spectrum of materials in the Albrecht Haupt Collection, the prints on gardens and garden art constitute a special and self-contained subset relevant to research. The collection contains views of gardens from impulse-giving countries such as Italy, the Netherlands, France and England, as well as motifs from Germany and the Scandinavian region, as well as allegories. Single sheets from the collection were shown for the first and only time as part of an anniversary exhibition on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Royal Gardens of Herrenhausen in 1966. [1]  

So far, however, the prints have only been rudimentarily sorted according to formal and geographical criteria and registered in a card index. Based on the preparatory work of the art historian Vossnack, the subject indexing of the folios with regard to gardens and garden art will therefore be carried out in accordance with today's library and artological standards. The focus on the subset of garden art results from the great topicality and interdisciplinary interest in garden art motifs. Thus, it is not only in the scientific discourse of the disciplines landscape architecture, history of art and architecture and garden art that there is an unbroken interest in garden art content, but also in the circles of the interested public.  

Following the indexing of content, metadata and digital copies of the selected graphic sheets will be uploaded to the web portal „Kulturerbe Niedersachsen“, which will act as a multiplier for the visualisation and accessibility of the objects. At the same time, the catalogued sheets will form the basis for a temporary exhibition on garden art at the Museum of History in Hanover.

[1] Hennebo, D./ Meyer, K. H./ Vossnack, L.: Herrenhausen 1666–1966. Europäische Gärten bis 1700. Jubiläumsausstellung in Hannover, Orangerie Herrenhausen, vom 19. Juni bis 28. August 1966.

Cooperation

content-related cooperation with the Museum of History of the City of Hanover

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