Sigurd Frosterus

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Sigurd Frosterus (born June 4, 1876 in Asikkala , † March 2, 1956 in Helsinki ) was a leading Finnish architect , art critic and art collector.

Tamminiemi
Villa Ekudden
Tamminiemi

Tamminiemi

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place Helsinki

Frosterus graduated from Helsinki University in 1899 in art history and received a diploma in architecture from Gustav Nyström in 1902. In 1920 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on colors in art. In the years 1903-1904 Frosterus worked in Weimar with Henry van de Velde .

Frosterus had an architecture office 1902–1904 with Gustaf Strengell and 1918–1935 with Ole Gripenberg. Frosterus and Strengell planned country houses and villas, including in 1903 Tamminiemi , which later became one of the residences of the President of Finland (1940-1981). His best-known work is the Stockmann department store in Helsinki. The architectural competition was held in 1916, but the building was not completed until 1930. In his works, Frosterus reflects the ideas of great European architects, writers and philosophers: HG Wells , Friedrich Nietzsche , Oswald Spengler , Henry van de Velde, Alfred Messel , Ragnar Östberg and Edwin Lutyens . He inspired numerous Finnish artists with his art theories and criticism. He collected post-impressionist art and was also a gifted watercolor painter . His picture collection is now in the Amos Anderson Art Museum in Helsinki.

Fonts

  • Sigurd Frosterus: Finnish modernism and avant-garde, architecture and painting: a selection of his texts and reviews from the years 1903–1953 , ed. v. Norbert Korrek u. a., Jonas Verlag Weimar 2015 ISBN 978-3-95773-168-5

Buildings

Isohaara hydropower plant

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henry van de Velde and Sigurd Frosterus: PDF pp. 258–263. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Frosterus, Sigurd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish architect and art critic
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Asikkala , Finland
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1956
Place of death Helsinki