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Johannes Palmer Hartmann (born in Copenhagen on January 18, 1870and died in Ghent on March 28 , 1948) is a Danish horticulturalist , founder of the JP Hartmann Horticultural Establishments in Ghent.

Johannes Palmer Hartmann Biography Birth January 18, 1870 Copenhagen Death March 28, 1948(aged 78) Ghent Nationality Danish Training Soro Academy Activity Gardener Dad Emil Hartmann Siblings Oluf Hartmann Bodil de Neergaard edit - edit code - edit WikidataModel documentation

Disambiguation help page	For homonymous articles, see Hartmann. Summary Biography His father was composer Emil Hartmann (1836-1898), descended from a line of Danish composers. Anecdotally, the name " Palmer Hartmann" is not identified as one might think the " Hartmann of palm trees " (it will become with its horticulture), but is the name that was given to him at birth, in memory of his great -mother Emma Hartmann (1807-1851), who composed under the pseudonym Frederik Palmer.

Passionate about flowers from a young age, Hartmann studied at the Landbohoejskole (da) (Haute Ecole Agricole) in Copenhagen where he obtained his diploma in 1894. He subsequently undertook international training with various major European horticultural companies. After Berlin, Paris , London and Saint Petersburg , he visited Ghent , then world capital of horticulture and acquired there a field in Mont-Saint-Amand -lez-Gand adapted to the cultivation of azaleas, founding thus its own horticulture [ 1 ].

Without any own capital (his father being a composer), he went into debt and first had six small greenhouses and a shed built. In 1899 however, a fire destroyed half of the company, but after returning to work, its horticulture became in a few years the largest in the city of Ghent, then in Europe [ 2 ].

In 1905 Hartmann married his cousin Ellen Hartmann (1877-1918). In 1908 he had an imposing villa built next to his company by the Danish architect Carl Harald Brummer (1864-1953), a villa which still exists today. It will quickly be integrated into the welcoming cultural life of Ghent. Many painters (mainly from the Laethem-Saint-Martin school, such as Émile Claus , Anna De Weert or Jenny Montigny ), musicians ( Carl Nielsen or the Dutch composer Julius Roentgen ), and writers ( Cyriel Buysse or Virginie Loveling) are welcomed in Villa Hartmann, in addition to many Danish acquaintances. His wife, herself a good pianist, died in 1918 after a long illness, in the midst of the war, at a time when it was impossible to communicate with her family in Denmark.

After the First World War, horticulture experienced rapid development. Johannes Hartmann was one of the main participants in the Ghent Floralies. At the Floralies of 1923, 1928, 1933 and 1938, each time he won around fifty prizes. In 1923 and 1938 he received the honorary award from Queen Elisabeth.

Hartmann has developed new species of hydrangeas including the hydrangea macrophylla Tovelit and the hydrangea Sigyn Hartmann.

In 1923, he was appointed Danish consul in Ghent and thus supported many compatriots. It was on his initiative and thanks to his financing that, on the plans of the architect Carl Brummer, and in memory of his wife, the church and home of Scandinavian sailors (" Skandinaviske Sœmandskirke og hjemmet ") were built in the port of Ghent for the reception and accommodation of visiting Scandinavian sailors.

In 1924, he married Sigyn Kemp (1893-1983), of Danish nationality, who had come to Ghent to treat the war wounded. She gave him five children, including Oluf Palmer Hartmann (1925-2008), who was to take over horticulture after his death, the two painter-artists Ellen Waelbroeck-Hartmann (1926-1999) and Alfred Palmer Hartmann (1928-1989), a son Johannes Palmer Hartmann (1926-1937), who died at age 11 of polio, and Bodil Mingers-Hartmann, nurse. In summer, the family stays in Denmark, in the Fuglsang mansion, which Bodil Neergaard lives in. (1867-1959), sister of Johannes Hartmann, and in which a rich cultural life takes place, with private concerts given every evening by some of the best musicians of the time.

When Hartmann decided in 1897 to settle in Ghent, his father told him that “ it is undoubtedly a good idea to establish a horticulture in Ghent, but know that if a European war breaks out, Belgium will be the site of it. battle as it always has been in Europe ”. And Hartmann actually lived through two world wars that began and were largely fought on Belgian soil. These will be difficult for his horticulture, with the numerous damage caused to greenhouses, the workers mobilized for the defense of the motherland, and the need to temporarily convert his business into growing tomatoes and other vegetables. During the war, the inhabitants of the district will gladly take refuge in the spacious cellar which will serve as a " bunker.When a German officer comes to ask Hartmann to release his house to make it the headquarters of their army, Hartmann - warned - had put his children well wrapped up to bed, and replied that unfortunately, his children were suffering from an epidemic. scarlet fever, which enabled him to avoid this requisition.

JP Hartmann Horticultural Establishments The company, founded in 1897, experienced rapid growth. In 1924, it already included 80 greenhouses. In 1928 Hartmann had an impressive winter garden built.

In 1948, thanks in particular to the application of the most modern methods of culture, horticulture had reached an area of ​​50,000 m², of which 12,000 m² were covered with 100 greenhouses, 2,000 m² with 4 large sheds which were used for packaging, and two covered spaces for araucarias. The water was pumped into 3 water towers 20 m high. Each of these tanks had a capacity of 200,000 liters, which sometimes was barely sufficient for watering, the daily consumption being able to rise to a million liters. The staff included, depending on the season, up to 125 workers. Each year, one million coconut seeds were imported from Brazil and 45,000 kentias seeds were imported from Australia.These seeds were then distributed to local horticulturalists who germinated them and then delivered the plants to Hartmann for export. Hartmann believed that Ghent's temperate climate was ideal for growing plants, with plenty of light, but never scorching sun for the crops. The fertile sandy soil from the Scheldt alluvium and the large water tables were additional assets.

Horticulture specialized in palms, azaleas, araucarias, hydrangeas, laurels and begonias, and a large number of other species. Hartmann also exported worldwide. Its horticulture was always carefully arranged and worthy of a botanical garden. He loved to hang decorative flower cups in his greenhouses, mix species, such as orange and lemon trees in the midst of an araucarias culture, and ensure that every point of view was always pictorial. From his correspondence and press articles of the time, we see that horticulture was constantly visited by curious people. The highlight of the visit was inevitably the winter garden, filled with lush exotic vegetation, dominated by palm trees, tree ferns and banana trees, strelitzias or azaleas,and crossed by a stream with a Pompeian fountain.

In 1948, Johannes Palmer Hartmann died at the age of 78, on Easter evening, in his house, from a brief illness. After a first ceremony in Ghent, during which hundreds of people will parade in front of the coffin, surrounded by a sea of ​​flowers, it will be brought by ship to Denmark where the burial will take place from the Vor Frue Cathedral. Kirke of Copenhagen, filled for the occasion with white lilacs, birches and countless candles, and from where the procession will leave after the ceremony for the burial in the Ordrup cemetery.

In its written obituary for Berlingske Tidende, the writer Johannes Lehmann (1896-1980) will celebrate " the outstanding artist in his field, in great style ," " artist and son artist in everything that he did " , and living in his " extraordinarily beautiful home in the midst of horticulture ". It says that "as soon as there were guests - and when were there not?" - we were greeted by a sea of ​​music ”. He talks about the letters Hartmann regularly sent to family and friends, “characteristic by their strange baroque mixture of seriousness and humor, always full of optimism and the conviction that the setbacks were there to be overcome ”.

He was made Knight of the Dannebrog in 1915, Knight of the Order of the Crown in 1923, Officer of the Order of Leopold in 1934, holder of the Christian X Freedom Medal in 1946, and Commander of the Order of Dannebrog in 1948.

His son Oluf Palmer Hartmann continued to run the business until 1974 after which a residential area was erected instead, but the street still bears the name of Johannes Palmer Hartmann ( Johannes Hartmannlaan ) [ 3 ].

Notes and references (nl) André Maes, Meer dan een naam: Een laan voor Johannes Hartmann in Sint-Amandsberg, Sint-Amandsberg, Roger Poelman,2007, 8 p. (da) Inger Soerensen, Johannes Palmer Hartmann og hans kreds , Denmark, Ole Klitgaard,2012, 1135  p. "  Map of Ghent  " , on Google Maps Bibliography Last modified 2 days ago by 2A02: 1812: 1620: 6500: 6186: 39A4: EFBE: A57D ASSOCIATED PAGES Emil Hartmann Danish composer

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