Public library, Stockholm, staircase
Public library, Stockholm, section, © 2019 The Museum of Modern Art
Public library, Stockholm, main entrance
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ERIK GUNNAR ASPLUND
Erik Gunnar Asplund is considered as the most important Swedish architect of the 20th century.
He studied painting at the Royal Art Institute and at the Stockholm Free Architecture School. He taught architecture at the Royal Art Institute. His early production has been influenced by Neo-Classicism like the City Library (1924-1928). Together with Sigurd Lewerentz, Asplund designed an enlargement of the Stockholm crematorium and the cemetery grounds as well as several chapels.From 1930 and the Stockholm Exhibition, Erik Gunnar Asplund, influenced by the Bauhaus, becomes a fervent modernist, both as an architect and a designer like the “Karmstol” chair (1931). He was a co-author of the Modernist manifesto.
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Public library, Stockholm, main hall © Wojtek Gurak
Public library, Stockholm, plan, © 2019 The Museum of Modern Art
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Skogskyrkogården
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Woodland cemetery, Stockholm, elevation © 2019 The Museum of Modern Art
Woodland chapel, Stockholm, © Federico Covre
Woodland chapel, Stockholm, © 2019 The Museum of Modern Art
Woodland crematorium, Stockholm, © 2019 The Museum of Modern Art
Woodland crematorium, Stockholm, © Chen Has
Woodland cemetery, Stockholm, © Landezine
Woodland crematorium, Stockholm, © 2019 The Museum of Modern Art
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Other works
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City hall, Gothenburg
City hall, Gothenburg, elevation, © 2019 The Museum of Modern Art
Stockholm Exhibition, © 2019 The Museum of Modern Art
Skandia cinema, Stockholm, © Wikimedia Commons
Skandia cinema, Stockholm, © 2019 The Museum of Modern Art
