Abstrakte Gärten in der Schweiz: Ernst Cramers Suche nach einem modernen Ausdruck in der Gartenarchitektur

Current Swiss landscape architecture is mostly characterised by semantic sobriety. Dieter Kienast in particular clearly rejected the ecological fundamentalism of the 70s and 80s by designing gardens and parks in a rather architectural style. However, the modern severity of Swiss landscape architecture that people like to call "typically Swiss" is not a new phenomenon. It has manifested itself time and again as the antagonist of an equally common alpine kind of naturalism. The Swiss garden architect Ernst Cramer (1898-1980) - whose work has never been studied in detail before - already attracted international attention in the 50s with his works ranging from naturalism to abstraction. For many landscape architects in Switzerland and Europe Cramer is one of the early examples to follow.