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Overview Peter Joseph Lenné (1789—1866) Quick Reference (1789–1866), one of the most influential German landscape gardeners of the 19th century. Born in Bonn, Germany, as son of the electoral head gardener by the same name, he was ... From: Lenné, Peter Joseph in The Oxford Companion to the Garden » Subjects: Art & Architecture

Abstract. Peter Joseph Lenné was undoubtledly one of the most significant German landscape architects of the 19th century. He was descended from a family of gardeners, who in the 17th century came from Belgium to Germany. Peter Lenné was born in Bonn in 1789.

Today is the anniversary of the death of Prussian landscape architect and gardener Peter Joseph Lenné ("Linny"). Lenné is regarded as the most important Prussian garden-artist of the 19th century. He was the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Berlin and Potsdam.

From Sanssouci to Peacock Island: Germany's greatest landscape artist. Peter Joseph Lenné (1789-1866) is regarded as the most important gardener in German history. The park surrounding the famous...

He was the son of the court and university gardener Peter Joseph Lenné the Elder (1756-1821). As director general of the Royal Prussian palaces and parks in Potsdam and Berlin, his work shaped the development of 19th-century German garden design in the Neoclassical style.

Peter Joseph Lenné (the Younger) (29 September 1789 – 23 January 1866) was a Prussian gardener and landscape architect. As director general of the Royal Prussian palaces and parks in Potsdam and Berlin, his work shaped the development of 19th-century German garden design in the Neoclassical style.

From Sanssouci to the Berlin Zoo and Peacock Island, Peter J. Lenné's green thumb and eye for design has left its mark across Germany. Even 150 years after his death, his masterpiece gardens live on.

Lenné, Peter Joseph (1789–1866). German landscape-architect and urban designer, trained under his father, Peter Joseph Lenné (1756–1821), and J.- N.- L. Durand. He worked at Laxenburg, near Vienna (1814–15), before settling in Potsdam, where, in 1854, he became the General Director of Gardens.