Dutch Landscape Designed: 1946-1954

Benthem, on the left, took part in the team that prepared prins Claus for his position as a member of the royal family. Photo by courtesy of his family. Roelof Jan Benthem (1911-2003), from 1946 in a leading role at the department Landscape Care of the Forestry Commission (Staatsbosbeheer), was already interested in nature and […]

This digital exhibition is a spinoff of the exhibition Dutch Landscape Designed: 1946-1954. Now that topics such as nitrogen reduction, climate change and the transition of rural areas are the focus of attention, the discussion about a new design of the landscape is highly topical. From 1946 to 1976, a small group of landscape designers