Gudmund Nyeland Brandt


Gudmund Nyeland Brandt was a Danish landscape architect who was internationally renowned.

Career

Brandt was born at Frederiksberg, Denmark. His father, Peter Christoffer Brandt, was a gardener, bank manager and parish bailiff in Ordrup, Denmark. His mother was Anna Kirstine Nyeland. He graduated from Ordrup Gymnasium 1897 and earned a M.A. in Philosophy the following year. Then he was trained as a gardener by trade gardener N. Jensen, Valby 1899-1901, was in England 1901-02 and at the Jardin des plantes, Paris 1902. He came to Germany in 1903 and was later in Belgium.
He was first employed by his father at P. Brandt commercial horticulture at Ørnekulsvej 3 Ordrup in 1904. He took over the business in 1906, and the same year he became a gardener for the municipality of Gentofte. He was at a dig in Ordrup Cemetery 1910-27. He was editor of Gardener Journal of Denmark 1905-7 and secretary of General Gardener Association of Denmark, consultant for the municipality of Gentofte in park issues 1921, member for the publication of Danish Manor House Gardens and The Royal Danish Garden Society, 1924-28.
He was a lecturer in garden design at the Danish Academy of Fine Arts 1924-41, city and municipal gardener in Gentofte Municipality 1927-45 and member of the Academy Committee for gardening 1942-45. He received the Eckersberg Medal 1937 and the C.F. Hansen Medal 1945.
He exhibited at the Artists' Autumn Exhibition of 1918, Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition in 1918, 1920 and 1945. He found inspiration in trips to Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Italy, and Algiers, the 1939.
On 1 April 1909 in Copenhagen, Brandt married Gerda Petersen, daughter of commerce gardener Emil Frederick Daniel Petersen and Marie Caroline Elisabeth Clément. He died at Kessel-Lo, Belgium and was buried at Ordrup Cemetery in Copenhagen.

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