Léonie Geisendorf
Léonie Geisendorf (née Kaplan ; born April 8, 1914 in Warsaw , Weichselland , Russian Empire ; † March 17, 2016 in Paris ) was an architect who lived and worked in Sweden for most of her life .
Life
Léonie Geisendorf received her training at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and then practiced with the renowned architect Le Corbusier , who became her inspiration and teacher. When she came to Sweden in 1938, she worked, among other things, in the architectural office of the Swedish consumer cooperative ( Kooperativa Förbundet ) and for Paul Hedqvist . In 1950 she founded her own office in Stockholm with her husband Charles-Edouard Geisendorf (1913–1985), who had come to Sweden from Switzerland during the Second World War . One of her early works was the row house settlement Riksrådsvägen in Stockholm, which she designed together with her husband between 1953 and 1956. The architecture of this row house settlement shows clear influences from Le Corbusier.
In 1965, together with the architects Ralph Erskine and Anders Tengbom , she formed the so-called EGT group , which took part in the architecture competitions as part of the redesign of Stockholm City ( Norrmalmsregelingen ) and submitted a much-discussed alternative proposal, which, however, was not implemented. Other works include the student house Fyrtalet from 1966 and the S: t Görans gymnasium from 1961, which is built in untreated concrete and designed in a brutalist style .
Since 1995 Léonie Geisendorf has been an honorary doctor of the Faculty of Architecture at the Royal Technical University in Stockholm . In 2003 she received the Prinz Eugen Medal.
literature
- Henning Repetzky: Geisendorf, Léonie. In: General Artist Lexicon . Volume 51, KG Saur, Munich and Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-598-22791-2 , ISBN 3-598-22791-4 , pp. 104-105
- Daniel A. Walser, Léonie Geisendorf (1914–2016), obituary. In: Work, build + live, No. 6, 2016, p. 61.
Web links
- Léonie Geisendorf (arkitekturmuseet.se)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/konst-form/till-minne-av-leonie-geisendorf-modernist-pa-hog-niva/ "In memoriam" - Dagens Nyheter
- ↑ Till minne av Léonie Geisendorf ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , March 22, 2016, accessed April 8, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geisendorf, Léonie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kaplan, Léonie (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw , Weichselland , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th March 2016 |
| Place of death | Paris |