National Romantic style

The National Romantic style was a Nordic architectural style that was part of the National Romantic movement during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is often considered to be a form of Art Nouveau.

The National Romantic style spread across Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, and Latvia, as well as Russia, where it also appeared as Russian Revival architecture. Unlike some nostalgic Gothic Revival style architecture in some countries, Romantic architecture often expressed progressive social and political ideals, through reformed domestic architecture.^[1]

Nordic designers turned to early medieval architecture and even prehistoric precedents to construct a style appropriate to the perceived character of people. The style can be seen as a reaction to industrialism and an expression of the same "Dream of the North" Romantic nationalism that gave impetus to renewed interest in the study of the history of Scandinavia, along with the rediscovery of the eddas and sagas of Nordic mythology.

Examples

Bergen Station (Bergen stasjon) (1913, Norway)
Copenhagen City Hall (Københavns Rådhus) (1905, Denmark)
Dresden Saxon District Court^[de] (Königlich-Sächsisches Landgericht) (1902, Germany)
Finnish National Theatre (Suomen Kansallisteatteri) (1902, Finland)
Frogner Church (Frogner kirke) (1907, Norway)
Holdre Manor (Holdre mõis) (1910, Estonia)
National Museum of Finland (Suomen Kansallismuseo) (1905, Finland)
Norwegian Institute of Technology (Norges tekniske høgskole) (1910, Norway)
Pohjola Insurance building (1901, Finland)
Polytechnic Students' Union or Sampo Building (1903, Finland)
Röhss Museum (Röhsska konstslöjdsmuseet) (1916, Sweden)
Stockholm City Hall (Stockholms stadshus) (1923, Sweden)
Stockholm Court House (Stockholms Rådhus) (1915, Sweden)
Taagepera Castle (Taagepera mõis) (1912, Estonia)
Tarvaspää, (1913, Finland) the house and studio built for himself by Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Tolstoy House (Толстовский дом) (1912, Russia)
Church of the Epiphany (Uppenbarelsekyrkan) (1913, Sweden)
Vålerenga Church (Vålerenga kirke) (1902, Norway)
Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus Church (Parròquia de Santa Teresa del Nen Jesús^[ca]) (1932, Barcelona)

Sweden

Finland

The Finnish National Theatre
Detail of Finnish National Theatre facade
The National Museum of Finland
Nylands Nation, Student Nation of Helsinki University
Hollola Municipal House
Alexanterinkatu Facade of Pohjola Insurance building, 1901.
Kallio Church, Helsinki
Hvittorp (near Kirkkonummi). Built by Saarinen, Gesellius, and Lindgren for Robert Westerlund
Nilsiä Church, Northern Savonia
Ainola, Sibelius' home.

Estonia

Denmark

Russia

Wawelberg Bank
Kapustin house
Putilova house (The Owl House)
Melzer Revenue house
Traynin hoyse
Basseynaya Community of Apartment Owners buildings
Bernstein house
Basser house
Zazersky house
Markozov house
Barsova house
Sagalov house
Tolstoy House
Schmidt house
House of the Latvian Church
Bazhanov house
Vollenweider house
Shcherbov Estate Museum
Lidval house^[ru]
Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes

References

^ Barbara Miller Lane, National Romanticism and Modern Architecture in Germany and the Scandinavian Countries (New York: Cambridge University Press), 2000:10.

State archives: Swedish National Romantic architecture

External links

[1] Barbara Miller Lane, National Romanticism and Modern Architecture in Germany and the Scandinavian Countries (New York: Cambridge University Press), 2000:10.

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