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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 during the last decade of his life. At this time, he was 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 141,576 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Gunnar Asplund is the 128th most popular architect (down from 120th in 2019), the 205th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 173rd 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 128 out of 518. Before him are Robert Koldewey, Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Eliel Saarinen, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Dinocrates, and Eero Saarinen. After him are Camillo Sitte, Gottfried Böhm, Rafael Moneo, James Stirling, Inigo Jones, and Lina Bo Bardi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Gunnar Asplund ranks 59. Before him are Per Albin Hansson, Franz Böhme, Theda Bara, André Lhote, Seishirō Itagaki, and G. W. Pabst. After him are Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Jules Pascin, Władysław Raczkiewicz, Sydney Chaplin, René Grousset, and Alois Hudal. Among people deceased in 1940, Gunnar Asplund ranks 38. Before him are Édouard Vuillard, Vito Volterra, Katharina Schratt, Nicolae Iorga, Marcus Garvey, and Saionji Kinmochi. After him are Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark, Prince Jean, Duke of Guise, Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark, Fusajiro Yamauchi, and Frederick Cook.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gunnar Asplund ranks 205 out of 1,879. Before him are Nicolai Gedda (1925), Carl Gustaf Wrangel (1613), Markus Persson (1979), Birger, King of Sweden (1280), Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722), and Knut Wicksell (1851). After him are Per Olov Enquist (1934), Ann-Margret (1941), Princess Sophie of Sweden (1801), Sigfrid Edström (1870), Salomon August Andrée (1854), and Carl Johan Bernadotte (1916).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Sweden

Among architects born in Sweden, Gunnar Asplund ranks 1. After him are Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654), William Chambers (1723), Augustin Ehrensvärd (1710), Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz (1716), Ragnar Östberg (1866), Sven Markelius (1889), and Ferdinand Boberg (1860).

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