Anton Soans

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Anton Soans (born September 17, 1885 in Oranienbaum, today Lomonossow , Russian Empire ; † November 26, 1966 in Tallinn , Estonian SSR , Soviet Union ) was an Estonian architect.

Life

Anton Lembit Soans completed his architecture studies at the Riga Polytechnic in 1913 . During the First World War he built fortresses and barracks for the tsarist army in Petrograd and Tallinn .

With the proclamation of the Republic of Estonia , he settled in Tallinn. From 1920 to 1923 he was an employee of the Estonian Ministry of Agriculture. In 1921 he was a co-founder of the Estonian Architects' Association ( Eesti Arhitektide Ühing ). From 1923 to 1928 Anton Soans was employed in the construction department of the Tallinn city administration. From 1928 to 1932 worked in the office for land planning. From 1936 until the Soviet occupation of Estonia, Soans was an official in the Estonian Ministry of Infrastructure. From 1944 until his retirement in 1956, Soans worked at the Center for Architectural Design and Planning as well as at the state-owned Soviet construction company Estonprojekt . He also worked as a lecturer for architecture in Tallinn.

Anton Soans was one of the most important urban planners in Estonia in the 1920s and 1930s . Among other things, he was responsible for the town planning of Viljandi and Kohtla-Järve . After the Second World War he was involved in general urban development plans for Tallinn, Tartu , Narva , Pärnu and Viljandi.

In 1948 Soans received the State Prize of the Estonian SSR . He was one of the most important architects of functionalism in Estonia. Above all, the "House of the Arts" ( Kunstihoone ) in Tallinn and the beach hotel ( Rannahotell ) in Pärnu were architectural pioneers of functionalism in the Baltic States .

Anton Soans is buried today in the Tallinn Forest Cemetery.

Architectural work (selection)

  • Art Nouveau house in Tallinn (A. Adamsoni tänav 4, 1929)
  • "House of Arts" in Tallinn (together with Edgar Johan Kuusik , 1934)
  • House in Pärnu (Lõuna tänav 2a, 1936)
  • House in Tallinn (Koidula tänav 32b, 1936)
  • Bathing establishment in Tallinn ( Pelgulinn district , 1936)
  • Beach hotel in Pärnu (together with Olev Siinmaa , 1935–37)
  • Kohtla-Järve Orthodox Church (1938)
  • Primary school in Kohtla-Järve (1939)
  • Bank building in Võru (together with Edgar Johan Kuusik, 1939)
  • Bank building in Pärnu (together with Alar Kotli , 1939/40)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.arhliit.ee/et/eesti_arhitektide_li/ajalugu
  2. ↑ Eesti elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti etsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 483
  3. ↑ http://www.kalmistud.ee/eng/otsingud/muinsus_otsing/motsing?view=1&id=501000140000000030&sess_admin=8681deee7dfffdb0d180430166fb2d50  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.kalmistud.ee  
personal data
SURNAME Soans, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Oranienbaum, today Lomonossow , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1966
Place of death Tallinn