Harald Sund
Harald Sund | |
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Born | |
Died | April 9, 1940 | (aged 64)
Nationality | Norwegian |
Occupation | Architect |
Buildings | Fredrikstad Library (1922) Majorstuen Church (1926) |
Harald Thorbjørn Sund (February 16, 1876 – April 9, 1940) was a Norwegian architect, artist and illustrator.[1]
Architectural career
Sund was born at Sund in the parish of Gildeskål in Nordland, Norway. Sund studied architectural engineering at Trondheim Technical College (Trondhjems Tekniske Læreanstalt), graduating in 1897. He studied architecture while traveling through Italy, Belgium and France. He followed with 16 years of study and work in England. From 1916 until from 1937, he established himself as an architect in Kristiania (now Oslo).[2][3][4]
In collaboration with
Harald Sund is considered to have been
Artistic career
He married the English painter Renée Emilee Pauline Finch in London during 1913. Sund was also a painter and with Renée was a founding member of the London Group along with Walter Sickert, Robert Bevan, and Harold Gilman.[10] The couple also exhibited at the
Selected works
- Fredrikstad Library (Fredrikstad, 1922, protected)
- Kroer Church (Ås, 1925)
- Majorstuen Church(Oslo, 1926/1933)
- Melbu Church (Melbu, 1938)
- Rotsund Chapel (Nordreisa, 1932)
- Sigerfjord Church (Sigerfjord, 1933)
- Skiptvet Church (Skiptvet, 1937)
- St. Dominic Church and Monastery (Oslo, 1927)
- Svanvik Church (Sør-Varanger, 1934)
- Svolvær Church (Vågan, 1934)
Gallery
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Skiptvet Church in Østfold
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Rotsund Chapel in Nordreisa
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Majorstuen Church at Kirkeveien in Oslo
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Kroer Church at Ås in Akershus
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St. Dominican Church and Monastery in Oslo
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Fredrikstad Library at Cicignon in Fredrikstad
References
- ^ Bjørn Cappelen. "Harald Thorbjørn Sund". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
- ^ "Sund. Gildeskål herad. Nordland". Matrikkelutkastet av 1950. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
- ^ a b Norsk kunstnerleksikon, vol. 4 : Sp-Å, pp. 112–113.
- ^ a b Årsberetning. Foreningen til norske fortidsminnesmerkers bevaring. 1941. Oslo: Grøndahl & Søns, pp. 3 ff.
- ^ "Majorstuen kirke". Norske Kirkebygg. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
- ^ "Om Fredrikstad bibliotek". Fredrikstad Kommune. October 29, 2007. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
- ^ Trond Marinus Indahl. "August Nielsen". Norsk kunstnerleksikon. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
- ^ Elisabeth Elster. "Harald Sund". Norsk kunstnerleksikon. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
- ^ Arkitekturguide for Nord-Norge og Svalbard: Rotsund kirke
- ^ "History of The London Group". The London Group. Archived from the original on February 23, 2015. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
- ^ Moorby, Nicola. 2009. London to Brighton: The Indian Summer of the Camden Town Group. In: Lara Feigel & Alexandra Harris (eds.), Modernism on Sea: Art and Culture at the British Seaside, pp. 55–70. Oxford: Peter Lang.