biography
pronunciation:
[yensen]
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1860–1951)
|
| biography:
| Landscape architect, born in Dybbol, Denmark. Arriving in the USA at age 24, he became a gardener in the Chicago West Parks (1886) and rapidly rose to become superintendent of Humboldt Park - a position he held until 1900, when he was dismissed because he exposed graft in the Chicago parks system. Creating the ‘prairie style of landscape design’, he distributed local plants along broad lawns for Midwestern parks (1900–35), retiring to run Clearing, a rustic school of landscape design in Wisconsin. |
|
|
