- Ivar Tengbom
Ivar Justus Tengbom (
7 April 1878 – 1968) was a Swedisharchitect and one of the best-known representatives of the Swedishneo-classical architecture of the 1910s and 1920s.Tengbom was born in
Vireda inJönköping County , studied at the Chalmers School of Technology inGothenburg 1894-1898, at the architecture school of theRoyal Swedish Academy of Arts inStockholm 1898-1901 (being awarded the so-called Royal Medal) and abroad 1905-1906. He worked 1906-1912 withErnst 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 Intendant in 1906 and professor of architecture in theRoyal 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").The architect firm Tengbom & Torulf won second prize in the 1905 competition for the
Stockholm City Hall building (afterRagnar Östberg ), and in 1906 again second prize for the "Engelbrektskyrkan " (Engelbrekt Church) in Stockholm (built according to the design ofLars Israel Wahlman ). They were more successful in the competition for the City Court building ("rådhus") inBorås 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 inArvika , completed in 1911.After Tengbom left the collaboration with Torulf, he made the design for the main office of the
Stockholms Enskilda Bank at the Kungsträdgården Park in Stockholm (1912-1915). Another Stockholm office for the bank, at Götgatan onSödermalm , was built according to Tengbom's design in 1916. Another bank office was the one designed for theBorås 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).In the 1920s he made the design for the building of the
Stockholm School of Economics (1925) and theStockholm Concert Hall (1923-1926) atHötorget Square. The home of theRoyal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and known as the place where theNobel 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 withGunnar Asplund 'sStockholm Public Library , the most widely recognized example of theneo-classical architecture of the Swedish 1920s, in English referred to as "Swedish Grace".In the last years of the 1920s, he designed the main office of
Ivar Kreuger 's corporationSvenska Tändsticksbolaget at Trädgårdsgatan in Stockholm. His later production includes the building for theSwedish Institute at Rome 1938-1940.References
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Nordisk familjebok , vol. 28 (1919), col. [http://runeberg.org/nfch/0449.html 837-838] and vol. 38 (Suppl., 1926), col. [http://runeberg.org/nfcr/0452.html 820] (in Swedish)External links
* [http://www.konserthuset.se/start.html?standard.asp?id=302 The Stockholm Concert Hall] (in English)
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