Franz Lipp (American, born Germany, 1897-1996)
Anthony Wuchterl (American, 1897-1970)
Sunset Memorial Gardens, Rockford, Illinois, Perspective
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Franz Lipp (American, born Germany, 1897-1996)
Anthony Wuchterl (American, 1897-1970)c. 1951
Sunset Memorial Gardens, Rockford, Illinois, Perspective
Franz Lipp (American, born Germany, 1897-1996) Anthony Wuchterl (American, 1897-1970) →landscape drawingarchitectural drawing
Date
c. 1951
Medium
Graphite on illustration board
Dimensions
50.6 × 71 cm (19 15/16 × 27 15/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Franz Lipp through the Chicago Botanic Garden
Franz Lipp was a distinguished protégé of Jens Jensen, the influential Prairie School landscape architect who worked with Chicago architects Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. Lipp’s practice included many projects for businesses looking to build sprawling, landscaped campuses outside of major cities. This suburban environment also included new cemeteries that stood apart from the pastoral parcels created as retreats from the city. Lipp’s design for a memorial garden in Rockford, Illinois, was one such space, with loose rows of trees flanking a well-proportioned path. As in years past, monumental sculpture remained a part of the modern cemetery but as a more integrated, even subordinate, element in the natural landscape.
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