Henri Duchêne

Remnants of the formal garden of Joyeux Castle designed by Duchêne

Henri Duchêne (* 1841 in Lyon , † 1902 in Lorient ; also Duchêsne ) was a French garden architect who specialized in the restoration of historic French gardens at the end of the 19th century .

After the French Revolution , French garden architecture was dominated by the landscape-related style of the English gardens . However, since the Franco-Prussian War , nationalist tendencies had increased and historical French gardens began to be reconstructed.

For the first time, flower beds, hedges, fountains and avenues were arranged in the form of geometric figures with decorative parterres in the Renaissance . The gardens were often designed with terraces and decorated with statues; even the topiary -called topiary bushes and shrubs came up during this time. The epoch loved the unusual, and so the gardens with grottos and labyrinths also became a sensual experience.

Henri Duchêne, for example, designed the garden of the Joyeux Castle . His son Achille Duchêne followed in his father's footsteps and also established himself as a garden architect.

literature

• Ehrenfried Kluckert: Garden Art in Europe . Köneman, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-8290-6495-0 , p. 113.