Jens Jensen and his Contemporaries in Design
Robert Grese
Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 7:00 pm – Garden Room, Reiman Gardens
Robert Grese will discuss the turn of the 20th century and the impact of landscape and architectural innovators like Frank Lloyd Wright and Frederick Law Olmsted. Grese is a professor in the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment and also serves as director of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum. He is the author of Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens and has written widely on the prairie style of landscape gardening. This program is presented in partnership with The Danish Immigrant Museum in Elk Horn, Iowa. This year The Danish Immigrant Museum will be exploring the life, career, and ongoing legacy of landscape architect Jens Jensen (1860-1951).Beginning this spring, the Jens Jensen Prairie Landscape Park will start to take shape throughout the The Danish Immigrant Museum's thirty-acre property. Inside the museum galleries, the exhibition "Jens Jensen: Celebrating the Native Prairie" will introduce Jens Jensen as a pioneer of landscape design in America, an advocate for using native plants in parks and gardens, and a passionate believer in the power of nature to inspire human creativity. The programs and exhibition are supported by a grant from Humanities Iowa and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Cosponsored By:
- Danish Immigrant Museum, Elk Horn
- Humanities Iowa
- Reiman Gardens
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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