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Gunnar Asplund

1885 - 1940

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Erik Gunnar Asplund (22 September 1885 – 20 October 1940) was a Swedish architect, mostly known as a key representative of Nordic Classicism of the 1920s, and during the last decade of his life as a major proponent of the modernist style which made its breakthrough in Sweden at the Stockholm International Exhibition (1930). Asplund was professor of architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology from 1931. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gunnar Asplund has received more than 132,740 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Gunnar Asplund is the 121st most popular architect (down from 113th in 2019), the 174th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 153rd in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Architect.

Gunnar Asplund is most famous for being the architect of the Stockholm City Hall.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Gunnar Asplund ranks 121 out of 424Before him are Eero Saarinen, Hans Hollein, Leo von Klenze, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Filarete, and Camillo Sitte. After him are Balthasar Neumann, Albert Speer, Baldassare Longhena, James Stirling, Ettore Sottsass, and Paulo Mendes da Rocha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Gunnar Asplund ranks 52Before him are Will Durant, Velimir Khlebnikov, Tamara Karsavina, Christian Wirth, Franz Böhme, and Otto Klemperer. After him are André Lhote, Per Albin Hansson, Alois Hudal, Sacha Guitry, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, and Seishirō Itagaki. Among people deceased in 1940, Gunnar Asplund ranks 37Before him are Katharina Schratt, Frederick Cook, Prince Jean, Duke of Guise, Vito Volterra, Édouard Vuillard, and Walter Chrysler. After him are Michael Hainisch, Saionji Kinmochi, Nicolae Iorga, Marcus Garvey, Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark, and Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gunnar Asplund ranks 174 out of 1,612Before him are Kurt Hamrin (1934), Toomas Hendrik Ilves (1953), Carl Gustaf Wrangel (1613), Inger Nilsson (1959), Hans Rosling (1948), and Ingvar Carlsson (1934). After him are Sten Sture the Younger (1493), John I of Sweden (1201), Tage Erlander (1901), Oscar Montelius (1843), Britt Ekland (1942), and Knut Wicksell (1851).

Among ARCHITECTS In Sweden

Among architects born in Sweden, Gunnar Asplund ranks 1After him are Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654), William Chambers (1723), Augustin Ehrensvärd (1710), Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz (1716), Ragnar Östberg (1866), and Ferdinand Boberg (1860).