Women crossing boundaries in Landscape - FOLAR and The Gardens Trust

Drawing by Ester Claesson in The Studio vol. 54, Number 228, March 1912

Speaker: Catharina Nolin

This talk gives an introduction to the first Swedish women working professionally as landscape architects, especially Ruth Brandberg, who trained at Swanley, and Ester Claesson who visited England several times, and their relation to British education and landscape architecture. I will also give an overview of what types of archives I have used.

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Catharina Nolin is a professor of Art History at Stockholm University. She has published extensively on Swedish nineteenth and twentieth century garden history and landscape architecture, especially urban parks (thesis), the gardens of architect Lars Israel Wahlman, historiography, and most recently on women landscape architects, c. 1900–1950