Alina Scholtz (24 September 1908 – 25 February 1996) was a Polish landscape architect, known as one of country's pioneers in developing the field. Throughout her career she worked on various public and private projects for cemeteries, parks and green spaces. Some of her most noted works include the grounds of a villa on Kielecka Street in Warsaw for which she won a Silver Medal at the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris, the memorial cemetery to the victims of the Palmiry massacre, and landscaping projects along the East-West traffic route of Warsaw. In addition to her design work, she served as on
Alina Scholtz (24 September 1908 – 25 February 1996) was a Polish landscape architect, known as one of country's pioneers in developing the field. Throughout her career she worked on various public and private projects for cemeteries, parks and green spaces. Some of her most noted works include the grounds of a villa on Kielecka Street in Warsaw for which she won a Silver Medal at the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris, the memorial cemetery to the victims of the Palmiry massacre, and landscaping projects along the East-West traffic route of Warsaw. In addition to her design work, she served as one of the founding members of the International Federation of Landscape Architects.
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Early life
Alina Zofia Scholtz was born on 24 September 1908 in Lublin, in Congress Poland. In 1918, she entered the female gymnasium in Lublin, graduating in 1926 and began working in a local plant nursery. She entered university, beginning her education in art history, but quickly changed her plans and enrolled in the horticulture department at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (Polish: Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego (SGGW)). During her practicum in 1928, she participated in the first classes offered by Franciszek Krzywda-Polkowski (pl) at the Skierniewice Experimental Station, with five colleagues. In 1930, she traveled to the United Kingdom to study English landscape planning and design. She visited a variety of noted gardens like Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire, Cator Court in Devon, Dawyck Botanic Garden in the Scottish Borders near Peeblesshire, and Sutton Place in Surrey, among others. Scholtz completed her graduate thesis and design project, creating a park at the Royal Castle of Warsaw, in 1932, earning a certification as a Gardening Engineer.
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Career In 1933 Scholtz became an assistant in the Department of Architecture and Park Studies for SGGW in Warsaw. Between 1933 and 1939, she designed several projects for single-family residences, a project for the Brühl Palace in Warsaw, a green space project for the Służewiec Racecourse, and the park in the Niebieskie Źródła Nature Reserve. She also participated in joint projects during the period: with Romuald Gutt for the greenery of Piłsudski's Mound in Kraków; with Krzywda-Polkowski to develop a park in Żelazowa Wola; and again working with Gutt in a restoration project on the Zułów estate, birthplace of Józef Piłsudski. In 1937, Scholtz and Gutt were awarded a Silver Medal at the World Exhibition in Paris for their landscaping at a villa on Kielecka Street in Warsaw. In 1938 Scholtz became a member of the Society of Polish Urbanists. During World War II Scholtz worked as a horticulturist and conservator of the greenery in Żelazowa Wola and when the war ended she returned to her position at SGGW as an adjunct professor. In 1945, she and Gutt designed the Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery at the request of Colonel Jan Mazurkiewicz. Their design called for a wide central avenue rimmed by…
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Death and legacy
Scholtz died on 25 February 1996, in Warsaw. She is known as one of the founders of Polish landscape architecture.
