Isak Gustaf Clason

Isak Gustaf Clason ( born July 30, 1856 in Falun, † July 19, 1930 ) was a Swedish architect. He was one of the most influential architects of the Arts and Crafts Movements in Sweden.

Training

Isak Gustaf Clason received his education at the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, where he switched from a purely technical education in the newly established Faculty of Architecture in 1877. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts ( Kungliga academies för de fria konsterna ), which he in 1881 with a royal medal and a travel grant of the State successfully left. Subsequent study trips took him to Spain and France.

Life and work

As a follower of the Arts and Crafts Movements Clason was an advocate for the use of "honest " materials, such as granite, brick and limestone. With the Östermalmshalle of 1888, he led, together with his colleague and partner Kasper Salin a the brick architecture of Northern Germany in Stockholm. For the same year, the Bünsowska comes huset on Strandvägen, a building with facades of German bricks with patterns in black, glazed brick.

His main work was the Nordic Museum on Djurgården, which should keep him busy for over twenty years from 1889. This time was the school of younger employees in Clasons office, including Ragnar Östberg and Lars Israel Wahlman. The Nordic Museum Clason returned to a historical form of language that is reminiscent of the northern European Renaissance of the 17th century and the castle Vadstena.

Around the turn of the century in 1900 Clason leads to the style of the Swedish neo-baroque. One example is the Court House ( Tingshuset ) in Norrköping of 1901. Clason here worked with dressed, articulated facades, a few stone details and a touch of Swedish Great Power period in the vaults of the staircase.

In 1905 Clason left the professorship, which he held since 1890 at the Technical University and devoted himself henceforth to the new building and the restoration of castles and manor houses, such as the stud Adelsnäs in Östergötland ( 1912-1922 ) and Selma Lagerlöf Mårbacka in Värmland (1925 ). In 1917 he was made an honorary Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Uppsala.

Isak Gustaf Clason was also one of the first industrial designers of the country. In 1894 he designed Sweden's first standard desktop phone for the Kongl. Elecktriska telegraph Werket.

Further work (selection)

  • Thaveniuska huset, Strandvägen in Stockholm, 1884-1885
  • Bünsowska huset, Strandvägen in Stockholm, 1886-1888
  • Norrlands nation, Uppsala 1889
  • Adelswärdska huset, Strömgatan, Stockholm 1889-1890
  • Hallwylska palatset, Hamngatan 4, Stockholm 1893-1898
  • Rådhus Norrköping, Norrköping 1907-1910
  • Villa Marie Hill, Djurgården, Stockholm 1908
  • Lönö herrgård, Norrköping kommun, 1911-1913
  • Skåne Hypoteksföreningen bankpalats, Lund 1916-1919
  • Timmermans Order palats, Stockholm 1913-1923

Pictures

Bünsowska huset

Hallwylska palatset

Nordiska museet

Vadstena Castle Baroque Revival architecture Televerket (Sweden) Integrated Authority File
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