Jobs

Employer: Interbau

Notes: designed and laid out the outside grounds

Employer: Technical University

Title: Assistant Professor

State: Berlin

Country: Germany

Start Date: January 01, 1950

End Date: January 01, 1962

Employer: Ludwig Späth nursery

Title: Landscape Gardening Department

City: Treptow

State: Berlin

Country: Germany

Start Date: January 01, 1926

End Date: January 01, 1928

Employer: Technical University

Title: Professor of Landscape and Garden Design

State: Berlin

Country: Germany

Start Date: January 01, 1962

End Date: January 01, 1969

Notes: first female professor for garden and landscape design at the architecture department

Employer: Technical University

Title: Teacher of Landscape and Garden Design

State: Berlin

Country: Germany

Start Date: January 01, 1946

End Date: January 01, 1950

Collaborators

Name: The Bornim Group

Project: various

Notes: with Karl Foerster, Hermann Mattern und Herta Hammerbacher started working in Potsdam-Bornim

Name: see below

Project: various

Notes: worked most successfully together with the architects Scharoun, Poelzig, Hermkes, Neufert and Jaenicke

Apprenticeships

No apprenticeships on record

Awards

No awards on record

Exhibitions

No exhibitions on record

Notable Projects

Title: Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf (Zehlendorf Forest Cemetery)

State: Berlin

Country: Germany

Education

Institution: palace gardens of Sanssoucci

Notes: trained as a gardener

Institution: Teaching and Research Institute of Horticulture

Start Date: January 01, 1924

End Date: January 01, 1926

Notes: in Berlin, Dahlem

Licensing

No licenses on record

Professional Affiliations

Organization: Gesellschaft für Experimentelle und Angewandte Ökologie (Society for Experimental and Applied Ecology)

Notes: interdisciplinary cooperative and discussion forum, Hammerbach's daughter Merete Mattern was also affiliated

Organization: Karl-Foerster-Stiftung für angewandte Vegetationskunde (Karl Foerster Foundation for Applied Vegetation Science)

Role: Founding member

Publications By

No publications by on record

Publications About

Title: The History of Women Architects

Author: Sonja Gunther, Christine Jachmann, Helga Schmidt-Thomsen; Miclle Stanley (translator)

Publication: Exhibit Catalog

Publisher: ABC Satz and Druck GmbH

City: Berlin

Notes: This is a catalog published for the exhibit of the UIFA (Union Internationale des Femmes Architectes) . An exhibition of the German Federal Republik Section of the UIFA within the framework of the IBA (International Building Exhibition) in Berlin.

Title: Visionärin der Neuen Stadt = Herta Hammerbacher, visionary of the New Green City

Author: Jeong-Hi Ri

Publication: Garten + Landschaft

Volume: 113

Issue: 3

Page: 19-22

Date Published: March 01, 2003

Notes: in German with an English summary, bibliographical references, photos., ports., drawings, site plans.

Title: Some modernist houses and their gardens : part 2 : the house of the North and the pleasure pavilion (Pavillon der Gartenfreude), Mattern House 1932-4 by Hans Scharoun, with garden by Hermann Mattern and Herta Hammerbacher

Author: Peter Blundell Jones, Jan Woudstra

Publication: Gartenkunst (Worms)

Volume: 14

Issue: 1

Page: 123-134

Country: Germany

Date Published: January 01, 2002

Notes: 30 ill., 12 color

Title: Annäherungen an eine Mitte

Author: Thies Schröder

Publication: Garten + Landschaft

Volume: 111

Issue: 6

Page: 13-16

Country: Germany

Date Published: January 01, 2001

Title: Karl Foersters Freundschaftsinsel

Author: Michael Kasiske

Publication: Garten + Landschaft

Volume: 111

Issue: 6

Page: 36-38

Country: Germany

Date Published: January 01, 2001

Notes: Nursery gardens designed in the 1930s by Mattern and Hammerbacher for Karl Foerster, are refurbished as a venue of the Bundesgartenschau 2001. Restoration by Topos.

Title: The Bornim Circle

Author: Michael Taylor

Publication: Landscape Design

Issue: 251

Page: 47-50

Country: United Kingdom

Date Published: June 01, 1996

Url: A group of landscape architects from the early Modern Movement of the 1930s in Germany. Especially Karl Foerster, Hermann Mattern and the Herta Hammerbacher.

Title: New flowers, new gardens : residential gardens designed by Karl Foerster, Hermann Mattern and Herta Hammerbacher, 1928-c. 1943

Author: Grit Hottentrager

Publication: Journal of Garden History

Volume: 12

Issue: 3

Page: 207-227

Country: United Kingdom

Date Published: September 01, 1992

Notes: Examines the garden designs of the three landscape architects, focusing on designs for gardens at private houses, a field in which they specialized. Characterizes Mattern and Hammerbacher's gardens as having functional open space; unity between house, garden and landscape; perennials and natural stone architectural elements; and a rhythmic pattern that developed into an organic style. Sees their garden designs as providing a refuge from the political reality of Germany in the 1930s and 40s.

Title: Haus, Raum und Garten zu einem Hause von Egon Eiermann, mit einem Garten von Herta Hammerbacher.

Author: unknown

Publication: Wasmuths Monatshefte für Baukunst

Volume: 20

Page: 389-396

Date Published: January 01, 1936

Notes: ill., plans.

Title: Gedanken zu einem Wohngarten in der Stadt

Author: unknown

Publication: Schöne Heim

Volume: 11

Page: 225-227

Date Published: January 01, 1940

Notes: ill., German

Title: Herta Hammerbacher zum 70. Geburtstag.

Author: unknown

Publication: Bauwelt

Volume: 61

Page: 51-52

Date Published: December 28, 1970

Notes: ill., plan, port., German

Title: Gärten als Idee der Befreiung = The garden as expression of freedom

Author: Merete Mattern

Publication: Garten + Landschaft

Volume: 95

Issue: 10

Page: 43-46

Date Published: October 01, 1985

Notes: Gardens designed by Herta Hammerbacher of the Bornimer Circle, English, German

Title: Beiträge zur Problematik der Beziehungen zwischen Freiraum und Bauwerk. Fe stschrift Herta Hammerbacher, hrsg. v. A. Jacobshagen

Author: A. Jacobshagen

Publication: Beitr. z. Problematik Beziech

Page: 1-257

Date Published: January 01, 1975

Notes: Théorie et sciences de l'art - Psychologie de l'art; Art theory and sciences - Art psychology, German, Allemand