Pavia Høegh

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Ingvar Kristian Pavia Høegh (born January 13, 1886 in Qaqortoq ; † March 9, 1956 ibid) was a Greenlandic carpenter , architect and councilor .

Life

From 1905 Pavia Høegh trained as a carpenter with Josva Josefsen and attended the technical school in Faaborg from 1910 to 1913 . Subsequently, a large number of buildings were erected in Greenland under his guidance and he is considered the first Greenlandic architect. He was strongly influenced by the Danes Peter Anton Cortsen (approx. 1903 to 1912) and Helge Bojsen-Møller (approx. 1909 to 1940) , who were active in Greenland shortly before or at the same time . His works include a sheep farm (1920) and the radio station (1924) as well as parts of the hospital (1925/1930), the Efterskole (1930), the fountain (1932), the meeting house (1936) and the packing house (1939-1940) in Qaqortoq, the church in Narsaq (1926–1927) and numerous other houses. He was also responsible for the construction of the US and Canadian consulate buildings in Nuuk (1942–1943).

He was a member of the local council in Qaqortoq and sat from 1917 to 1922 and from 1927 to 1932 and as a representative for Axel Laurent-Christensen in 1936 and 1938 in Grønlands Landsråd .

He died in 1956 at the age of 70. In the course of his life he had received the Knight's Cross of the Dannebrog Order , was appointed Dannebrogsmand and had received the Kongelige Belønningsmedalje and the Fortjenstmedaljen .

Pavia Høegh was the son of gunsmith Peter Billiam Gerhard Høegh and his wife Amalie Cecilie Thaarup. His brothers were the blacksmith John Høegh (1890-1966) and the printer, editor and businessman Frederik Høegh (1895-1970), who were also members of the regional council. Pavia herself married on August 15, 1909 in Qaqortoq Merab Kathrine Charlotte Egede (1888–1950), daughter of Adolf Egede and Ane Motzfeldt. The artist Aka Høegh (* 1947) is his granddaughter.

Individual evidence

  1. a b biography in Weilbach's artist lexicon
  2. Axel Kjær Sørensen: Denmark-Greenland in the Twentieth Century (= Meddelelser om Grønland . Man and Society. 34). Danish Polar Center, Copenhagen 2006, ISBN 87-90369-89-0 , ( digital copy (PDF; 3.35 MB) ).
  3. Fra nord til syd in the Atuagagdliutit of March 22, 1956