French landscape architect. He was a garden designer and water engineer, the pupil of André Le Nôtre. He was active in Germany and Austria. He created the formal garden of terraces, parterres, and a large pool in the Belvedere gardens in Vienna. He designed also the magnificent park of Schloss Augustusburg, Brühl.
He died in Germany.
The layout of the Belvedere garden in Vienna was established in response to the specific contours of the landscape and the position of the two palaces for the victorious Field marshal Prince Eugene. Between the imposing structure of the Upper Belvedere and the more intimately scaled Lower Belvedere lay a splendid park. In 1717, Prince Eugene obtained the services of the royal Bavarian architect Dominique Girard, who had previously worked at Nymphenburg and Schleissheim.
The picture shows the Belvedere garden in Vienna.
The layout of the Belvedere garden in Vienna was established in response to the specific contours of the landscape and the position of the two palaces for the victorious Field marshal Prince Eugene. Between the imposing structure of the Upper Belvedere and the more intimately scaled Lower Belvedere lay a splendid park. In 1717, Prince Eugene obtained the services of the royal Bavarian architect Dominique Girard, who had previously worked at Nymphenburg and Schleissheim.
The picture shows the Belvedere garden in Vienna.
Schloss Augustusburg at Br�hl was the favourite residence of the archbishop of Cologne and Prince Elector Clemens August of Bavaria. Dominique Girard, a French landscape architect active in Germany, took over the garden layout in 1728 and based his work on the canal system at Nymphenburg. A magnificent park was created, surrounded by water and dominated by a basin laid on the central axis in imitation of Versailles. Diagonal pathways connected the main parterre with the woodland.
