Architecture : $b nineteenth and twentieth centuriesHitchcock, Henry-Russell
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Architecture : $b nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell
Architecture, Modern -- 19th century; Architecture, Modern -- 20th century
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As late as 1893-4 the much more conspicuous Magasin du Nord department
store, built by A. C. Jensen (1847-1913) and his partner H. Glaesel in
the Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen, also carried the high mansarded roofs
of the new Louvre, both flat-sided and convex-curved, above its end and
centre pavilions. The detailing was chastened, however, by memories of
local palaces and mansions in the nearby Amalie quarter of the city,
where Jensen had worked on the completion of the eighteenth-century
Marble Church. The Magasin du Nord thus combines two characteristic
aspects of the architecture of the period, evident in most countries but
rarely thus joined: a reflection of Napoleon III’s Paris, elsewhere
reaching its peak around 1870, and a revival of the style of the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, generally beginning about a decade
later.
In Sweden also there was some Second Empire influence, although nothing
very notable resulted from it. The Jernkontovets Building in Stockholm
erected by the brothers Kumlien (A.F., 1833-?; K.H., 1837-97) in 1873-5
has a high mansard and pavilions combined with a respectably academic
treatment of the façades that is quite different from the bombast of the
Søtorvet. Bern’s Restaurant in Stockholm of 1886 by Åbom, whose more
conservative Renaissance Revival theatre of thirty years earlier has
been mentioned, is similarly Parisian, particularly in the decorations
that were provided by Isaeus.
With I. G. Clason (1856-1930) the tide of eclecticism in Sweden turned
more nationalistic. The Northern Renaissance of his Northern Museum,
built in 1889-1907, parallels somewhat belatedly the Meistersinger mode
in Germany; but it also shows a more refined and delicate touch,
somewhat like that of George and of Collcutt in England. As in most
other countries, the revival of the native sixteenth-century style was
soon succeeded by a revival of the Baroque, here rather academically
restrained. This phase is most conspicuously represented in Stockholm by
the grouped Parliament House and National Bank of 1897-1905 by Aron
Johansson (1860-1936). In the nineties Ferdinand Boberg (1860-1946) was
also initiating a new movement somewhat comparable to that led by Nyrop
in Denmark (see Chapter 24).
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