Carl August Ehrensvärd

Swedish Neo-Classical architect. His store-house at the dockyard at Karlskrona (1784) is one of the most severe late-C18 buildings. After a visit to Paestum in the 1780s (recorded in his Journey to Italy 1780, 1781, 1782 (1786)) he designed a primitivist Doric project for an entrance-gate to the dockyard that influenced Stirling in his Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart (1977–84). His architectural designs, including a pyramid and an extremely squat Doric Order, were as advanced as any at the time, and his polemical works promoted something remarkably like C20 Functionalism.

Bibliography

• CoE (1972)
• J. Curl (2005)
• Ehrensvärd (1786, 1922–5, 1948)
• Frykenstedt (1965)
• Josephson (1963)
• Konsthistorisk Tidskrift, xxxiii (1964), 1–20
• Rosenblum (1967)
• Jane Turner (1996)
• Warburg (1893)

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