Gardens offer people protection, relaxation, and inspiration. Whether artificial and enclosed or seemingly wild and natural, such cultivated paradises have also spurred artists over the centuries to produce master- pieces. The range of art produced in this way s as varied as the meaning of the garden itself: Gardens in medieval paintings are often surrounded by a wall. which keeps evil out of its magical realm. For Peter Paul Rubens, the garden was a private, domestic space. Caspar David Friedrich saw himself as a mediator be-tween humankind and sublime nature. For Vincent van Gogh the garden was a screen for projecting the artist's melancholy. Impressionists like Claude Monet planted lavish gardens as real-life models for their splendidly colorful paintings.

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The Painter’s Garden：Design--Inspiration--Delight

SABINES CHULZE

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What Is a Garden?

Thoughts of a Botanist

H．WALTE RLACK

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The Garden of Nature

ANDREASBEYER

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Paradise Lost--Paradise Regained?

John Constable’S Sense of Home and His Cloud Studies

WERNE RBUSCH

Catalogue numbe rs 35—47

Garden Memories

GUDRUNK0RNER

CataIogue numbe rs 48—61

An Outdoor Interior--The Garden，Seen from the Terrace

BEATES0NTGEN

Catalogue numbe rs 62—70

The Imaginative Space of the Impressionist Garden

J0HNH0USE

CataIogue numbe rs 71—97

Gardens of Love and Suffering

C0RNELIAH0MBURG

CataIogue numbe rs 98—117

Visions of Paradise

KLAUS BORNER

CataIogue numbe rs 1]8—135

Paul Klee’S Botanical Metamorphoses and Garden Fantasies

BARBARA ESCHENBURG

CataIogue numbe rs 136—160

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