Research on the Activities and Work of Belgian Landscape Architect Jules Buyssens (1872–1958): A Collective Monograph Establishes Facts Important to the History of Lithuanian Landscape Architecture

Abstract

Jules Buyssens, famous Belgian gardener and landscape architect, is affiliated at “the André School” of the landscape architecture. He was employed in 1896 as a designer and then as the André office manager. In 1898, Buyssens was called upon to direct the construction works for the creation of a park for Count Felix Tyszkiewicz and the seaside resort on the Baltic Sea in Palanga (archives René Pechère). He was involved in various park’s construction works in Tyszkiewicz manors in Lithuania and wished to move his country, Belgium in 1904, that he became a city plantations inspector, chief gardener for the City of Brussels; and he was also allowed to keep private clients in Belgium and the foreign countries. He was the organizer and the chief of the Belgian Union of Gardener Architects (1930), also of gardens’ art movement and revue Le Nouveau Jardin Pittoresque (1913–1940). The collective monograph Jules Buyssens et Le Nouveau Jardin Pittoresque (2023; compiled by Eric Hennaut and Ursula Wieser Benedetti), published in Belgium, summarizes the facts of his creative activity, solidly complements and refines previous Lithuanian publications.