Ivar Tengbom

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Ivar Tengbom, 1933

Ivar Justus Tengbom (April 7, 1878 – August 6, 1968) was a

neo-classical architecture
of the 1910s and 1920s.

Tengbom was born in

Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm 1898-1901 (being awarded the so-called Royal Medal) and abroad 1905-1906. He worked 1906-1912 with Ernst 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 the Royal 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 National Board of Public Building (Byggnadsstyrelsen).

The Stockholm Concert Hall in 2002
Stockholm School of Economics (1925–1926) at Sveavägen in central Stockholm, not far from the Concert Hall.

The architect firm Tengbom & Torulf won second prize in the 1905 competition for the

Engelbrektskyrkan (Engelbrekt Church) in Stockholm (built according to the design of Lars Israel Wahlman). They were more successful in the competition for the City Court building (rådhus) in Borås 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 in Arvika, completed in 1911. The two also received the commission to build a hunting lodge for Eric von Rosen in what is today Jaktstuguskogen Nature Reserve. The Trelleborg Water Tower was built after drawings by Tengbom and completed in 1912.[1]

After Tengbom left the collaboration with Torulf, he made the design for the main office of 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

Swedish Grace
.

In the last years of the 1920s, he designed the

Swedish Institute at Rome 1938-1940. He was awarded one of the inaugural Prince Eugen Medals in 1945 for architecture.[2]

His son Anders Tengbom (1911–2009) was also, in his own right, a very famous architect. One of his greatest creations was Bonnierhuset, one of the tallest buildings in Stockholm. His daughter, Ann-Mari Tengbom, married Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck.

References

  1. Trelleborgs kommun. 27 December 2004. Archived from the original
    on 14 June 2011. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
  2. ^ "Prins Eugen Medaljen" (PDF). Retrieved 14 February 2015.

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