Theorie der Gartenkunst

The five-volume Theorie der Gartenkunst was an influential theoretical work in German on the early landscape garden. Hirschfeld was a very well-read philosophy professor from Kiel, but he had no practical experience.

Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld (1742–1795), Theorie der Gartenkunst, Leipzig 1779–1785, title page of the first volume; image source: Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich.