Hans Kayser

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Hans Kayser (28 June 1884, Karlsruhe-28 November 1964, Heidelberg) was a landscape designer.

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Formative years

1901-1903 apprenticeship in horticulture institute to Weinheim.

Assistant in the Alpine Garden of the Lord Torrevon in Geneva and then one year in Schlossgärtnerei Friedrichshof at Tronberg.

1904-1906 Visit of the Royal Gardeners establishment to Dahlem, Berlin.

Then until 1907 Garden technician at Gartenarchitekt Fischer in Frankfurt, and until 1908 in the Garden Center Henkel in Darmstadt.

There attended lectures at the University of Technology and the School of Applied Arts in Frankfurt, Germany.

After that half-year stay in England in the summer of 1909.

Career

In autumn 1909, he started his business as a landscape architect in Frankfurt and at the same time H. Seibert the Odenwälder crops Kayser.

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