Isak Gustaf Clason

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Clason with his wife, 1915
Östermalmshallen indoor market at Östermalmstorg
Bünsow House at Strandvägen
Nordiska Museum, Stockholm
Original sketch to the courthouse in Norrköping

Isak Gustaf Clason (30 July 1856 Falun – 19 July 1930 Rättvik) was a Swedish architect.[1]

Biography

Clason studied

Royal Institute of Technology in 1889 and became first surveyor in the Chief Surveyor's Office in 1904. He became vice president of the Art Academy in 1902 and president in 1918. He was also elected member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in 1907.[2]

Work

His first major work was the Bünsow building (1886–1888) at Strandvägen in Stockholm, commissioned by the sawmill baron Friedrich Bünsow and influenced by French Renaissance architecture. It broke new ground in its use of natural material throughout (limestone and bricks) rather than the plaster that had been dominant in Swedish architecture until that point. It also broke against conventions through its avoidance of complete symmetry.

During most of the 1880s, Clason ran an architectural firm in Stockholm together with architect Kasper Erik Salin (1856–1919). He designed the house at 14 Österlånggatan (1888-1889) and Adelsvärd House (Adelswärdska huset) at Norrström in Stockholm (1889). They also designed Östermalmshallen (1889), the indoor market at Östermalmstorg in Stockholm.[3][4]

His largest commission was the

Stockholm Exhibition in 1897, and completed a few years later.[5]

Other designs include the

Hallwyl Palace, also in Stockholm, the Rosen house at Strandvägen, and the building for Ständernas allmänna brandförsäkring, an insurance company, at Skeppsbron in the Old Town of Stockholm. Clason also is responsible for the façade of Norrlands nation in Uppsala
.

References

  1. ^ "I Gustaf Clason". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
  2. ^ "Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
  3. ^ "Salin, Kasper (1856-1919)". KulturNav. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
  4. ^ Bengt Lärkner. "I.G.Clason och Carl Westman, Stjärnarkitekter i Åtvidaberg" (PDF). nostrapagina.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-02. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
  5. ^ "Magnus R Isæus". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. Retrieved May 1, 2020.

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