Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jacques_Wirtz> ?p ?o }
Showing triples 1 to 92 of
92
with 100 triples per page.
- Jacques_Wirtz abstract "Jacques Wirtz (born 31 December 1924) is a Belgian landscape gardener.Wirtz was born in Schoten, a suburb of Antwerp. His family were stockbrokers. He studied landscape architecture at a horticultural school in Vilvoorde. He was forced to work in a nursery in Germany during the Second World War. He started his own business in 1950, as garden designer and later landscape architect. He has four children. His sons Martin (born 1963) and Peter (born 1961) joined the firm in 1990. It is the largest landscape design business in Belgium.Wirtz is particularly noted for his use of evergreens clipped to create undulating \"clouds\" of foliage, creating a green architecture that lasts all year, together with a retrained palette of herbaceous planting. He believes that his gardens should preserve and enhance the spirit of place, rather than stamping his own mark on the landscape.He came to public notice after being commissioned to design the garden for the Belgian pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka. Perhaps his largest public commission was the redesigned Jardin du Carrousel in the Tuileries Gardens in Paris, a long-running project which started in 1990 and was completed in 2004. President Mitterrand also asked him to redesign the gardens at the Élysée Palace (1992). In addition to many small and large gardens for industrial or domestic settings, his firm has designed gardens in Belgium at Cogels Park in Schoten (1977), the campus of Antwerp University (1978), Bremweide Park in Antwerp (1978), for the Belgian headquarters of BMW at Bornemat (1985), a garden running down the centre of Albert II Boulevard in Brussels (1992), and gardens at the Château De Groote Mot in Borgloon (1994), part of the garden at the Château de Hex in Heers (1995), and the garden at the Château de Vinderhoute (1997); in Luxembourg, for the Banque de Luxembourg (1996) and Banque Générale du Luxembourg (1997); and the renovated garden at Alnwick Castle (2001), and Jubilee Park in Canary Wharf in England. Some people stated he is also involved with the renovation of the garden of the 1000-year-old temple complex at Khajuraho in India, a World Heritage Site containing over 80 Hindu temples in an area of about 8 square miles (21 km²), but this is not correct.He received the Golden Medal of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in 2006, when he was compared with André Le Nôtre, William Kent, and Lancelot Brown.".
- Jacques_Wirtz birthDate "1924".
- Jacques_Wirtz birthYear "1924".
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageExternalLink fullpage.html?res=9807EEDA133CF935A25756C0A9629C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageExternalLink www.wirtznv.be.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageID "22183782".
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageLength "3373".
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageOutDegree "46".
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageRevisionID "691091820".
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Alnwick_Castle.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink André_Le_Nôtre.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Antwerp.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink BGL_BNP_Paribas.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink BMW.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Banque_de_Luxembourg.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Belgium.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Borgloon.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Bornemat.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Brussels.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Canary_Wharf.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Capability_Brown.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Category:1924_births.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Category:Belgian_landscape_architects.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Category:Living_people.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Category:People_from_Schoten.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Château_De_Groote_Mot.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Château_de_Hex.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Château_de_Vinderhoute.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Cogels_Park.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink England.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Evergreen.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Expo_70.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink François_Mitterrand.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Germany.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Heers.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Herbaceous_plant.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Jardin_du_Carrousel.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Jubilee_Park,_London.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Khajuraho_Group_of_Monuments.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Landscape_architecture.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Leaf.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Luxembourg.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Osaka.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Paris.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Plant_nursery.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Royal_Flemish_Academy_of_Belgium_for_Science_and_the_Arts.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Schoten.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Tuileries_Garden.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink University_of_Antwerp.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Vilvoorde.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink William_Kent.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink World_Heritage_Site.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink World_War_II.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLink Élysée_Palace.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLinkText "Jacques Wirtz".
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageWikiLinkText "Jacques and Peter Wirtz".
- Jacques_Wirtz dateOfBirth "1924".
- Jacques_Wirtz name "Wirtz, Jacques".
- Jacques_Wirtz shortDescription "Belgian landscape gardener".
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Authority_control.
- Jacques_Wirtz wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Persondata.
- Jacques_Wirtz description "Belgian landscape gardener".
- Jacques_Wirtz description "Belgian landscape gardener".
- Jacques_Wirtz subject Category:1924_births.
- Jacques_Wirtz subject Category:Belgian_landscape_architects.
- Jacques_Wirtz subject Category:Living_people.
- Jacques_Wirtz subject Category:People_from_Schoten.
- Jacques_Wirtz hypernym Wirtz.
- Jacques_Wirtz type Agent.
- Jacques_Wirtz type List.
- Jacques_Wirtz type Person.
- Jacques_Wirtz type Person.
- Jacques_Wirtz type List.
- Jacques_Wirtz type Agent.
- Jacques_Wirtz type NaturalPerson.
- Jacques_Wirtz type Thing.
- Jacques_Wirtz type Q215627.
- Jacques_Wirtz type Q5.
- Jacques_Wirtz type Person.
- Jacques_Wirtz comment "Jacques Wirtz (born 31 December 1924) is a Belgian landscape gardener.Wirtz was born in Schoten, a suburb of Antwerp. His family were stockbrokers. He studied landscape architecture at a horticultural school in Vilvoorde. He was forced to work in a nursery in Germany during the Second World War. He started his own business in 1950, as garden designer and later landscape architect. He has four children. His sons Martin (born 1963) and Peter (born 1961) joined the firm in 1990.".
- Jacques_Wirtz label "Jacques Wirtz".
- Jacques_Wirtz sameAs Q2360514.
- Jacques_Wirtz sameAs ジャック・ヴィルツ.
- Jacques_Wirtz sameAs Jacques_Wirtz.
- Jacques_Wirtz sameAs m.05q5xwn.
- Jacques_Wirtz sameAs Q2360514.
- Jacques_Wirtz wasDerivedFrom Jacques_Wirtz?oldid=691091820.
- Jacques_Wirtz givenName "Jacques".
- Jacques_Wirtz isPrimaryTopicOf Jacques_Wirtz.
- Jacques_Wirtz name "Jacques Wirtz".
- Jacques_Wirtz name "Wirtz, Jacques".
- Jacques_Wirtz surname "Wirtz".