Carl Westman

Ernst Carl Westman (born on February 20th, 1866 with Shelly sand - died in 1936 with Stockholm) was a Architecte and a Designer of interior Swedish. It very early adopted the principles of the national romantic style, but, later, in the Twenties, it turned to the neo-classic style

Biography

Carl Westman was born with Uppsala in 1866. He made his studies with the royal Institut of technology between 1885 and 1889, then with the Swedish royal Académie of Arts in Stockholm between 1889 and 1892. He married in 1893 the artist Elin Andersson and moved with the the United States where he made a training course in architect R.L. Daus with New York between 1893 and 1895.

In 1895 it went back to Stockholm to work in the architect Aron Johansson who was at that time the architect working on new the Swedish Parliament builds between 1895 and 1904. In 1897, Westman opened its own cabinet of architecture. He became member of the Swedish royal Academy of Arts in 1912, and in 1916 he became the architect as a chief of the royal organization of health Swedish.

Carl Westman was in Sweden one of most important lawyers in favor of the return to a national character of architecture. He was one of the first Swedish architect who developed the national romantic style, a style which Maria cultural and architectural antecedents with the ideas of the movement Arts and British Crafts to create a typically Swedish architecture, generally out of bricks and wood. The building of Swedish general medical association, carried out by Carl Westman in Stoclholm (1904-1906), was the first built in the national romantic style, which, with the Musée Röhss with Gothenburg (1910-1914) and the Law courts of Stockholm (1911-1915), gives an good example of what is this national romantic style. The law courts of Stockholm strike still today by its resemblance to the medieval castle of Vadstena, and get a remarkable monument in the center of Stockholm, although the building proves frankly rigid compared to its program.

Later, Westman worked particularly as an architect of hospital, gradually adopting the traditional style of the Twenties, with as notable example the Hôpital Beckomberga (1935-1949) which was completed after its death. Whereas the psychiatric hospital of Beckomberga was on a strictly symmetrical level, with massive buildings grouped in a rather functional composition, the Karolinska hospital struck by a more functional architecture where the symmetrical drawing was attenuated.

Carl Westman was also intermittently a designer of furniture and apparatuses domestic such as ceramics stoves. He died in Stockholm in 1936.

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