Ragnar Ostberg
Ragnar Östberg (born July 14, 1866 in Stockholm ; † February 5, 1945 ) was a Swedish architect and professor at the Kungliga Konsthögskolan Stockholm from 1922 to 1932.
Ragnar Östberg was born in Stockholm in 1866 to a family of officials. After studying at the Technical University in Stockholm from 1885 to 1889 and at the Art Academy from 1888 to 1891, he went on a study trip to the USA. Further study trips to France, Italy, Greece, Spain and England followed in the years 1896 to 1899.
He began his career as an architect of villas in Stockholm and Uppland , combining Swedish handicraft and timber construction traditions with classical forms. Examples are Villa Pauli in Djursholm and Villa Ekarne on the Djurgården peninsula (both 1905), Villa Geber in Stockholm (1909) and Elfviksudde on the island of Lidingö (1911).
Östberg's main work, however, is the Stockholm City Hall ( Stockholms stadshus ), which was built between 1911 and 1923 and is considered the most outstanding example of Swedish national romanticism in the transition to Swedish classicism of the 1920s; a style that was called Swedish grace abroad . In 1929/30 he converted Strömsborg .
After the completion of the town hall, there was a creative break. Östberg's late work, such as B. the Maritime History Museum in Stockholm (1933–1936) or the Zornmuseum in Mora (1938/39) are hardly influenced by the functionalism that dominated the 1930s , but are shaped by the pursuit of classical order and an interest in handicrafts .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ragnar Östberg in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ostberg, Ragnar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 5, 1945 |