Herman de Vries

Herman de Vries (born 11 July 1931 in Alkmaar) is a Dutch artist.

He typically stylises his name in lower-case as herman de vries on his artwork 'to avoid hierarchy'.

De Vries works and lives with his wife Susanne in Eschenau near Knetzgau, Germany.

[1][2] In 1993, as part of that year's World Horticultural Exposition in Stuttgart, de Vries created Sanctuarium, a small forest also enclosed by a circular palisade consisting of gold-tipped spears, in this case of wrought iron.

His intention was for it to remain undisturbed, but the city parks department cleared the land in 2018 as part of a policy of periodic pruning.