The Stockholm Concert Hall, 2002 The Stockholm Concert Hall, from a 1926 postcard Ivar Justus Tengbom (7 April 1878 – 1968) was a Swedish architect and one of the best-known representatives of the Swedish neo-classical architecture of the 1910s and 1920s. April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ...
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The Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Konungariket Sverige listen) is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, in Northern Europe. ...
Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture. ...
Tengbom was born in Vireda in Jönköping County, studied at the Chalmers School of Technology in Gothenburg 1894-1898, at the architecture school of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts 1898-1901 (being awarded the so-called Royal Medal) and abroad 1905-1906. He worked 1906-1912 with Ernst Torulf in Stockholm and Gothenburg 1906-1912, and on his own from 1912 in Stockholm. He was appointed architect in the Office of the Chief Intendent in 1906 and professor of architecture in the Royal Swedish College of Art in 1916. He became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in 1917. In 1921 he was appointed Director General of the State Office of Construction (Byggnadsstyrelsen) Jönköping County, or Jönköpings län is a County or län in southern Sweden. ...
Chalmers University of Technology Chalmers University of Technology or Chalmers tekniska högskola is a university in Gothenburg, Sweden. ...
The Royal Swedish Academy of Arts or , founded in 1773 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden. ...
Stockholm [, ] is the capital and the largest City of Sweden. ...
Gothenburg (Swedish: Göteborg [jøːtəbɔrj]) is a city and a municipality on the western coast of Sweden, in the County of Västra Götaland. ...
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The architect firm Tengbom & Torulf won second prize in the 1905 competition for the Stockholm City Hall building (after Ragnar Östberg), and in 1906 again second prize for the Engelbrektskyrkan (Engelbrekt Church) in Stockholm (built according to the design of Lars Israel Wahlman). They were more successful in the competition for the City Court building (rådhus) in Borås in 1909, where they won first prize and were allowed to execute their design. Another public building designed by Tengbom in collaboration with Torulf was the new church in Arvika, completed in 1911. Stockholm City Hall The Stockholm City Hall, or Stockholms stadshus, is the building of the Municipal Council for the City of Stockholm in Sweden. ...
Arvika is a Municipality in Värmland County, and a city in west central Sweden, with the city situated 80 km north_west of Karlstad. ...
After Tengbom left the collaboration with Torulf, he made the design for the main office of the Stockholms Enskilda Bank at Kungsträdgården in Stockholm (1912-1915). Another Stockholm office for the bank, at Götgatan on Södermalm, was built according to Tengbom's design in 1916. Another bank office was the one designed for the Borås Enskilda Bank (1916). Other Tengbom buildings from the time period were that of the building for the daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet at the street Karduansmakargatan in Stockholm, and the Högalidskyrkan (Högalid Church) in Stockholm (after winning first prize in a competition). Front page of the first issue of Svenska Dagbladet (18 December 1884) Svenska Dagbladet or SvD is a daily newspaper in Sweden. ...
In the 1920s he made the design for the building of the Stockholm School of Economics and the Stockholm Concert Hall (1023-1926) at Hötorget. The home of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and known as the place where the Nobel prize ceremony takes place, the Hall, a light-blue building with a portico with tall, slender polygonal columns with corinthian capitals. The concert hall is probably Tengbom's best-known building and, together with Gunnar Asplund's Stockholm Public Library, the most widely recognized example of the neo-classical architecture of the Swedish 1920s, in English referred to as Swedish Grace. Stockholm School of Economics The Stockholm School of Economics or Handelshögskolan is a business school and private university in Stockholm, Sweden. ...
The Stockholm Concert Hall (Konserthuset) is the main hall for orchestral music in Stockholm, Sweden. ...
The Nobel Prizes (pronounced no-BELL or no-bell) are awarded annually to people who have done outstanding research, invented groundbreaking techniques or equipment, or made outstanding contributions to society. ...
The Corinthian order as used for the portico of the Pantheon, Rome provided a prominent model for Renaissance and later architects, through the medium of engravings. ...
Stockholm Public Library Erik Gunnar Asplund (22 September 1885 – 20 October 1940) was a Swedish architect, mostly known as a representative of Swedish neo-classical architecture of the 1920s, and during the last decade of his life as a major proponent of the modernist style which got its breakthrough in...
Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture. ...
In the last years of the 1920s, he designed the main office of Ivar Kreuger's corporation Svenska Tändsticksbolaget at Trädgårdsgatan in Stockholm. His later production includes the building for the Swedish Institute at Rome 1938-1940. Ivar Kreuger (March 2, 1880–March 12, 1932) was a Swedish financier and industrialist. ...
References
- Nordisk familjebok, vol. 28 (1919), col. 837-838 (http://runeberg.org/nfch/0449.html) and vol. 38 (Suppl., 1926), col. 820 (http://runeberg.org/nfcr/0452.html) (in Swedish)
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