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Gunnar Asplund
Sign in to saveAlso known as Erik Gunnar Asplund, E. G. Asplund, Erik Gunnar, Eric Gunnar Asplund, Erik G. Asplund
Swedish architect (1885-1940)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1885-09-22 ) 22 September 1885, Stockholm, Sweden
- Died
- 20 October 1940 (1940-10-20) (aged 55), Stockholm, Sweden
- Occupation
- Architect
- Buildings
- Villa Sturegården , Nyköping , (1913), The Snellman House, Djursholm, (1918), Stockholm (1920) The Listers County Court House, Sölvesborg , (1921), The Skandia Cinema, Stockholm (1923), Stockholm Public Library , (1928)
- Projects
- Skogskyrkogården (1914-40), Gothenburg Courthouse Extension (1913-37)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gunnar
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Place of birth
- Stockholm
- Place of death
- Engelbrekt church parish
- Child
- Hans Asplund
- Occupation
- architect
- Educated at
- Royal Institute of Technology
- Employer
- Royal Institute of Technology
- Languages spoken
- Swedish
- Image
- Gunnar Asplund 1940.jpg
- Work location
- Stockholm
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- place of burial
- Skogskyrkogården
- Commons category
- Gunnar Asplund
- date of birth
- 1885-09-22
- date of death
- 1940-10-20
- Commons Creator page
- Gunnar Asplund
- Commons gallery
- Gunnar Asplund
- name in native language
- Erik Gunnar Asplund
- has works in the collection
- Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design
- writing language
- Swedish
- start of work period
- 1905-01-01
- end of work period
- 1940-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
Erik Gunnar Asplund (22 September 1885 – 20 October 1940) was a Swedish architect, mostly known as a key representative of Nordic Classicism of the 1920s during the last decade of his life. At this time, he was a major proponent of the modernist style which made its breakthrough in Sweden at the Stockholm International Exhibition (1930). Asplund was professor of architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology from 1931. His appointment was marked by a lecture, later published under the title "Our architectonic concept of space." The Woodland Crematorium at Stockholm South Cemetery (1935-1940) is considered his finest work and one of the masterpieces of modern architecture.
Major works
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