- Eduard Petzold
Carl Eduard Adolph Petzold (
14 January 1815 –August 1891) was a Germanlandscape gardener .Life
Petzold was born in Königswalde (Lubniewice), Brandenburg. As a child, he followed his parents in 1826 to
Muskau , visiting the town school and in 1828 the grammar school at Halle inPrussian Saxony .In 1831, he started working at the
Park von Muskau of the PrinceHermann von Pückler-Muskau , who turned out to be of great influence on his later work. 1835-38 he created his first Park at Matzdorf (Silesia ). In 1844-52 he received the position of court gardener inWeimar , in 1852-1872 he returned as "Parkinspector" toMuskau , and was, in 1852-72, Director of Parks of theNetherlands .He created 174 parks and gardens in
Germany ,Austria -Hungary , theNetherlands ,Poland ,Bulgaria , andTurkey . [For full information see: Michael Rohde, "Von Muskau bis Konstantinopel", 1998.]He published frequently on his art, as well as biographical studies of other landscape gardeners, especially his study "Fürst Hermann von Pückler-Muskau in seiner Bedeutung für die bildende Gartenkunst", of 1874.
Notes and Citations
Bibliography
* Michael Rohde: "Von Muskau bis Konstantinopel. Eduard Petzold ein europäischer Gartenkünstler" [in German] , Dresden: Verlag der Kunst 1998, ISBN 90-5705-119-2.
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