Carl Westman
Ernst Carl Westman (20 February 1866 – 23 January 1936) was a
National Romantic Style
, but turned later to the neo-classical style of the 1920s.
Biography
Carl Westman was born in
Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in 1889–1892, in Stockholm. In 1893, he married artist Elin Andersson and moved to the United States where he practiced with architect R. L. Daus in New York City
in 1893–1895.
In 1895, he returned to Stockholm to work for architect
Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in 1912 and in 1916 he became the chief architect of the National Swedish Board of Health
.
Carl Westman was one of the foremost advocators in Sweden for a return to the national characteristics in architecture. He was one of the first
Swedish architecture
often in brick and wood.
Carl Westman's Swedish General Medical Association building in Stockholm (1904-1906) was the first building built in the National Romantic Style, with the
Röhss Museum in Gothenburg (1910–1914) and Stockholm Court House (1911–1915), providing another two prominent examples. The Stockholm Court House has striking similarities with the medieval Vadstena Castle
, and provides a dazzling sight in downtown Stockholm, though the building proves quite inflexible for its purposes.
Later on, Westman worked particularly as a hospital architect, gradually adopting the classical style of the 1920s, with noted examples being the
Karolinska Hospital
(1935–1940) which was completed after his death. Whereas the psychiatric hospital at Beckomberga was strictly symmetrically planned, with massive buildings grouped in a fairly functional pattern, the Karolinska hospital strives towards a more functional architecture where the symmetrical design was toned down.
Carl Westman was also a part-time interior designer of furniture and utility supplies such as tiled stoves. He died in Stockholm in 1936.
References
- Eriksson, Eva (1990). Den moderna stadens födelse: svensk arkitektur 1890-1920 (in Swedish) (1st ed.). Stockholm: Ordfront. SELIBR 7634261.
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