Édouard André during the expedition
A lake in the Sefton Park designed by André
A fountain in Euxinograd Park
The plan of Palanga Park
'Édouard François André' - (born
17 July 1840 in
Bourges - died
25 October 1911 in
La Croix) was a
French horticulturalist as well as a leading
landscape architect of the late 19th century, famous for designing city
parks and
public spaces of
Monte Carlo and
Montevideo.
Biography
In
1860 at an age of 20 Édouard André was appointed as a Head Gardener (''Jardinier Principal'') of
Paris and participated in redesigning of the city in cooperation with
Adolphe Alphand and
Baron Haussmann. During 8 years of
public service he has planted/designed many public spaces including the
Parc des Buttes Chaumont and
Tuileries Gardens.
During his life André has designed around 100
1 public and manor
landscape parks, mainly in
Europe: the
Russian Empire,
Austria-Hungary,
Switzerland, the
Netherlands,
Denmark and
Bulgaria (the
Euxinograd palace park). Most famous of them include the
Sefton Park in
Liverpool,
England, designed in
1866, the
Luxembourg Castle Park,
Funchal Garden in
Madeira,
Portugal, Weldham Castle Garden in
Markelo,
Netherlands and
Borghese gardens in
Rome,
Italy.
The private parks designed by André include 4 landscape parks in
Lithuania establshed in
Tyszkiewicz nobles' residences:
Lentvaris, Trakų Vokė (now in
Paneriai elderate of
Vilnius city municipality), Užutrakis (near
Trakai) and the most beautiful park in Lithuania - the
Palanga Botanical Park. These parks have many distinctive features used by André in his parks: harmonious placement and pleasing arrangement of artificial
grottoes,
waterfalls, mountain-style stone structures, employment of natural
water bodies and
panoramas.
Bibliography
★ ''Bromeliaceae Andreanae. Description et Histoire des Bromeliacées, récoltées dans la Colombie, l'Ecuador et la Venezuela''. Paris: Librairie Agricole, 1889. Nachdruck: Berkley CA, USA: Big Bridge Press, 1983
★ ''L' art des jardins: traité général de la composition des parcs et jardins''. Paris: Masson, 1879. Nachdruck: Marseille: Lafitte Reprints, 1983, ISBN 2-7348-0127-2
See also
★
Roseraie du Val-de-Marne
External links
★
Palanga Botanical Park website
★
About the Sefton Park
★
Weldham Castle website
★
Roseraie du Val-de-Marne Website
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