The present article shall bring to mind the extraordinary stimuli given by Johannes Gabriel Granö (1882Granö ( -1956) to international landscape research through his exceptionally wide spectrum of studies. It begins with his expeditions into the Altai Mountains and to Northwestern Mongolia at the beginning of the 20th century and his multifaceted publications about their results -also in difficult times -like in 1945.

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When, in 1950, Herbert Lehmann published his "Physiognomy of Landscape", he was already very far ahead of his time. Although he was highly recognized internationally in the following decades -due to his findings in karst research -the questions of landscape experience as an indispensable part of geographic work were remained a very special lifelong concern for him. Unfortunately, Lehmann was largely isolated in this respect, at least in German-speaking landscape research. It is the great merit of the Frankfurt geographer Renate Müller to have preserved Lehmann's legacy with regard to questions of landscape spatial experience towards the end of the 20th century. Together with Anneliese Krenzlin, she published the comprehensive text compilation "Herbert Lehmann. Essays on the Physiognomy of Landscape" in 1986 and later co-initiated a lecture series of the Frankfurt Geographical Society on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Lehmann's birth. Nevertheless, outside German geography and indeed outside Germany, representatives of other disciplines turned their attention to the subject of landscape experience. So we can see what a remarkable bandwidth, from landscape planning and architecture to psychology and philosophy, Lehmann's interests spanned. Recently, Lehmann has also once again been mentioned in German social geography. Representatives of the "New Landscape Geography" consider his starting points as "connectable". Furthermore, there are references to the research field of landscape atmospheres. The present contribution is intended to support the recollection of the rich idealistic legacy that Herbert Lehmann has bequeathed to us.