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The English Landscape Garden
bed of the lake. Even to-day this corner of the English part does not look so harmonious
as the illustration (Fig. 599) represents it, though the treatment of the great lake is much
more successful. In the English garden at Munich, which is Skell's chief work, he has
been almost too sparing of his buildings, and Uvedale Price would certainly have reckoned
it among the wearisome creations of which he talks.
Like nearly all the theorists of the new style, Hirschfeld fought to the utmost against
the overcrowding of buildings and especially the mixing up of different styles; but so
long as the same theorists clamoured after variety and contrast, the worried practical
people had to catch at the help that garden-buildings gave. It was unbridled licence in taste,
FIG. 599. SCHWETZINGEN—THE MOSQUE
and the extravagant desire to bring every fancy to completion, that brought to birth such
a monstrosity as the garden of Rosswald near Troppau in Silesia, which was laid out by
that queer being, Count Hoditz, who m his last days of poverty had to be supported
by his friend and patron, Frederick the Great. Everything was heaped up there that
people had thought of for hundreds of years. Beside a Chinese garden and temple there
was the Holy Grave; after Christian hermitages came Indian pagodas; here a picturesque
hill, there a little town for dwarfs, with a royal palace, church, etc. And from want of
dwarfs the count for a time had children to live there. Next came Druid caves, with altars;
then an antique mausoleum, to which sacrifices for the dead were brought.
It was a great joy to the count to have fetes corresponding to all the various parts of
his garden—to suit the Chinese garden, or the wilds of America. He introduced the
gambols of naiads and mermen m the lake, but best of all he loved his Arcadian fetes, when
he dressed his peasants as shepherds. None the less, people took him seriously. Frederick
bed of the lake. Even to-day this corner of the English part does not look so harmonious
as the illustration (Fig. 599) represents it, though the treatment of the great lake is much
more successful. In the English garden at Munich, which is Skell's chief work, he has
been almost too sparing of his buildings, and Uvedale Price would certainly have reckoned
it among the wearisome creations of which he talks.
Like nearly all the theorists of the new style, Hirschfeld fought to the utmost against
the overcrowding of buildings and especially the mixing up of different styles; but so
long as the same theorists clamoured after variety and contrast, the worried practical
people had to catch at the help that garden-buildings gave. It was unbridled licence in taste,
FIG. 599. SCHWETZINGEN—THE MOSQUE
and the extravagant desire to bring every fancy to completion, that brought to birth such
a monstrosity as the garden of Rosswald near Troppau in Silesia, which was laid out by
that queer being, Count Hoditz, who m his last days of poverty had to be supported
by his friend and patron, Frederick the Great. Everything was heaped up there that
people had thought of for hundreds of years. Beside a Chinese garden and temple there
was the Holy Grave; after Christian hermitages came Indian pagodas; here a picturesque
hill, there a little town for dwarfs, with a royal palace, church, etc. And from want of
dwarfs the count for a time had children to live there. Next came Druid caves, with altars;
then an antique mausoleum, to which sacrifices for the dead were brought.
It was a great joy to the count to have fetes corresponding to all the various parts of
his garden—to suit the Chinese garden, or the wilds of America. He introduced the
gambols of naiads and mermen m the lake, but best of all he loved his Arcadian fetes, when
he dressed his peasants as shepherds. None the less, people took him seriously. Frederick