Franz Lipp
American 1897–1996
Memorial Design Study with Building, Perspective
INV-2487
Franz Lipp
American 1897–1996N.d.
Memorial Design Study with Building, Perspective
Franz Lipp American 1897–1996 →20th Centuryarchitectural drawingperspective
Date
N.d.
Medium
Graphite, rust colored grease pencil, and gouache on tracing paper
Dimensions
24 × 45.5 cm (9 1/2 × 17 15/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Franz Lipp through The Chicago Botanic Garden
A protégé of influential Prairie School landscape architect Jens Jensen, Franz Lipp established a practice that included many projects in the Chicago suburbs like this memorial garden with symmetrical rows of hedges flanking a reflecting pool. Like many new suburban spaces Lipp designed in the postwar period—including several sprawling corporate campuses—this cemetery’s identity bridges urban ideals and the rural places they replaced. Lipp retained monumental sculpture as an integral part of the modern cemetery, yet one that was integrated, even subordinate, to natural elements of the landscape design.
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