Gunnar Asplund

Erik Gunnar Asplund ( born September 22, 1885 in Stockholm, † October 20, 1940 ibid ) was one of the most important Swedish architects, academics, designers, and pioneers of Scandinavian modernism.

Asplund one of the most influential representatives of Scandinavian rather the influence of classicism and modernity was, until his untimely death, as advocates of a moderate modern architectural language. From 1904 to 1909 he studied. Norra Latin in the School of Technology in Stockholm and the Clara School under the direction of Ragnar Östberg, Ivar Tengbom, Carl Westman and Carl Bergsten In his travels through Germany in 1910 and 1914 to Italy Asplund studied intensively the embedding of religious buildings and colonnades in the Italian countryside. In 1930 he was appointed chief architect of the Stockholm exhibition in 1930, when he succeeded his international breakthrough. From 1931 he taught as a professor of architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

His most important works include the City Library, Stockholm City Hall of Gothenburg, the district court in Sölvesborg and the Forest Cemetery Skogskyrkogården which he built with his college friend Sigurd Lewerentz and already UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Asplund and his young group of architects had by their early contact with Johannes Ludwig also formative influence on the Munich School of Architecture. By Louis postwar publications on Gunnar Asplund and Rudolf Pfister builder and his numerous excursions Scandinavia the Technical University of Munich shaped a whole generation of architects and secured sustainable Scandinavian influence architecture in southern Germany.

To Asplund students include Joern Utzon the builder of Sydney's Opera House and his son Hans Asplund. His grave is in the cemetery Skogskyrkogården.

Works in selection

  • Skogskyrkogården (1915-1940)
  • Stockholm stadsbibliotek (1918-1927)
  • Skandia Theatre (1922-1923)
  • Stockholm Exhibition 1930

Stockholm stadsbibliotek

Gothenburg Town Hall

Skogskyrkogården

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