About this artwork
Born in Germany, Lipp immigrated to the United States after World War I to train at the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University and under the great American landscape architect Jens Jensen. Lipp settled in Chicago in the late 1920s and built a versatile practice designing landscape programs for commercial complexes, hospitals, schools, homes, and churches, collaborating with many of Chicago’s noted architectural firms. The Lipp collection includes photographs and slides, and an album documenting his professional career.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- AIC Archives
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Artist
- Franz Lipp (Landscape Architect)
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Title
- Franz Lipp Papers
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Date
- Made 1930–1977
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Medium
- Black and white and color photographic prints, slides and transparencies.
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Dimensions
- 5 boxes: W.: 76.2 cm (30 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Franz Lipp, 1993; Marvin Wehler, Jim and Margaret Young, and Annemarie van Roessel (as noted in the collection inventory), n.d.
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Reference Number
- 1993.1
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