Sigurd Lewerentz
Sigurd Lewerentz (born July 29, 1885 in Sandö ; † December 29, 1975 in Lund ) was a Swedish modernist architect who was mainly known for his cemetery and church buildings.
education
After completing his training at the Chalmers Technical University in Gothenburg, he practiced with Bruno Möhring in Berlin from 1907-09 and with Theodor Fischer and Richard Riemerschmid in Munich . On study trips to Austria and Italy he became known with the incipient neoclassical interest in Karl Friedrich Schinkel . This influence is most evident in the Resurrection Chapel in Stockholm's Skogskyrkogården Forest Cemetery .
plant
In collaboration with Gunnar Asplund , he laid out the Stockholm Forest Cemetery from 1915, where he built the Resurrection Chapel in 1926 in the style of strict classicism . However, his most personal work is the Östra kyrkogården cemetery in Malmö . Here he was responsible for all new buildings and conversions between 1916 and 1969. In 1930, together with Gunnar Asplund, he was one of the prominent architects of the Stockholm exhibition, where the modernist style had its breakthrough in Sweden.
In 1944 he planned the Malmö Music Theater together with Erik Lallerstedt and David Helldén . He achieved his final breakthrough late in his life with the building of churches in strict brick shapes . B. the Markuskirche Markuskyrkan in Björkhagen in the Stockholm suburb of Skarpnäck or the St. Petruskirche in Klippan .
The last few years
Sigurd Lewerentz was active in his profession well into old age. His late works are completely free of any decoration, frameless window openings in untreated concrete and consciously visible technical installations, such as electrical cables and ventilation ducts, as architectural means of expression, completely in the style of brutalism . This style element is clearly expressed in the Markuskirche. He was awarded the most prestigious Swedish architecture prize, the Kasper Salin Prize , for this in 1962 .
One of his last works was a flower kiosk at Östra kyrkogården in Malmö. A raw concrete block with a steeply sloping monopitch roof , stylistically far from the Resurrection Chapel in the forest cemetery in Stockholm fifty years earlier. Lewerentz was one of the most headstrong and distinguished personalities in Swedish architecture of the 20th century, always right in the middle of the trend and at the same time on his own track.
literature
- Sigurd Lewerentz, architect. Byggförlaget, Stockholm 1985.
- Svensk Arkitektur 1640-1970. Byggförlaget, Stockholm 1986.
- Janne Ahlin: Sigurd Lewerentz, Architect 1885–1975. Park Books, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-906027-48-7 .
photos
Resurrection Chapel
Östra kyrkogården in Malmö
Markuskyrkan in Stockholm
Markuskyrkan in Stockholm
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lewerentz, Sigurd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sandö , Sweden |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 1975 |
| Place of death | Lund , Sweden |