Emil Victor Langlet

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Emil Victor Langlet

Emil Victor Langlet (born February 28, 1824 in Borås , Sweden ; † March 10, 1898 in Spetebyhall in Södermanland ) was a Swedish architect .

Life

Emil Langlet came from an originally French Huguenot family who immigrated to Sweden during the time of King Charles X. Gustav . After finishing school, Langlet studied at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg and at the Kungliga Konsthögskolan in Stockholm and at the École des beaux-arts in Paris . He then went on a study trip to Italy from 1853 to 1856 . Towards the end of his Italian study trip around 1855, he worked on a design for the architectural competition for the new construction of the Norwegian parliament building ( Storting ) in Christiania and prepared it accordingly.

However, he was late in submitting his design for the architectural competition for the parliament building in 1885 and had no hope of a chance. Langlet initially continued his study tour in Italy and after his return he has since worked on new projects in Sweden-Norway . In 1857 the commission announced as a result that the joint design by the two competitors and architects of German origin, Heinrich E. Schirmer and Wilhelm von Hanno, had won. Langlet's design for the Storting building, however, attracted a great deal of attention and found many influential supporters who preferred to have it built. After a long argument in the Norwegian Parliament, it was finally announced in 1860 that it would not be the winning design from the competition by the architectural duo Heinrich E. Schirmer and Wilhelm von Hanno that would be built, but Langlets his.

After the bid, Langlet lived and worked for a large part in Norway as an architect for several years. The most famous building that the architect planned remained the Storting Building of the Norwegian Parliament, which was not completed until 1866. During this time Langlet worked as an architect and designed, among other things, the school buildings of the Nissens Pikeskole , today's bookstore ( Bokhandelens hus ) in Øvre Vollgate in Oslo, the Børsbygningen , the Drammen Theater in Drammen , and the town hall in Fredrikstad .

After the completion of the Storting he returned to Sweden and worked as editor and editor of the magazine Tidskrift för byggnadskonst och ingeniörvetenskap . Above all, he was noted as a church architect during this time and was involved in the planning and construction of around twelve churches in Sweden. As an architect, he also worked from 1866 for the State Authority for Public Buildings ( Överintendentsämbetet ) in Stockholm. He also served as a professor at the Royal Technical University and the Stockholm Art Academy. In 1879 the work and guideline published Swedish Protestant Churches according to the Central System ( Protestantiska kyrkobyggnader enligt centralsystemet ). In the years between 1884 and 1886, Emil Viktor Langlet was commissioned as the architect to plan and manage the renovation of the outer masonry of the city ​​fortifications in Visby . From 1886 to 1893 he was the site manager for the restoration of the cathedral in Uppsala .

Langlet lived from the end of the 1870s until his death in his villa in Spetebyhall, which he had built according to his designs in the French Neo-Renaissance style. In 1864 he married the writer Mathilda Söderén . Their children were the engineer and author Filip Langlet , the chemist Abraham Langlet , the artist Alexander Langlet and the journalist and writer Valdemar Langlet .

Structures in Norway and Sweden (selection)

  • 1860: Bookstore ( Bokhandelens hus ), formerly the school building of the Nissens Pikeskole, Oslo
  • 1861: Fredrikstad prison, later Fredrikstad town hall
  • 1863: Hospital and Hopital, Fredrikstad
  • 1866: Storting building in Oslo
  • 1867: Drammen Stock Exchange
  • 1869: Drammen Theater
  • 1879: Borgerskapets änkehus in Stockholm
  • 1880: Caroli kyrka in Malmö
  • 1880: Beatebergs kyrka in Västergötland
  • 1881: Kungsäters kyrka in Västergötland
  • 1882: Gällivare nya kyrka in Lapland
  • 1882: Snöstorps kyrka in Halland
  • 1882: Pauli kyrka in Malmö
  • 1883: Håle-Tängs kyrka in Västergötland
  • 1883: Sävare kyrka in Västergötland
  • 1886: Erska kyrka in Västergötland
  • 1888: Silleruds kyrka in Värmland
  • 1889: Tranemo kyrka in Västergötland
  • 1893: Örsjö kyrka in Småland

Gallery of Emil Victor Langlet buildings

  • Storting building in Oslo, completed in 1866

  • Drammen Theater ( Drammens teater )

  • Citizenship House ( Borgerskapets änkehus ) in Stockholm

  • Sankt Pauli Church ( Sankt Pauli kyrka ) in Malmö

  • Caroli Church ( Caroli kyrka ) in Malmo

  • Snöstorps Church (Snöstorps kyrka) in Halmstad Municipality

  • Kungsäters Church ( Kungsäters kyrka ) in the municipality of Varberg

  • Erska Church ( Erska kyrka )

  • Håle-Tängs Church ( Håle-Tängs kyrka ) in the municipality of Grästorp

  • Beateberg Church ( Beatebergs kyrka ) in the municipality of Töreboda

  • Örsjö Church ( Örsjö kyrka ) in Småland

literature

Web links

Commons : Emil Victor Langlet  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Victor Langlet . In: Store norske leksikon (Norwegian)
  2. ^ Emil Victor Langlet on kulturnav.org
personal data
SURNAME Langlet, Emil Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Borås , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1898
Place of death Spetebyhall , Södermanland