Carl Gustaf Bergsten

Place: Norrköping

Born: 1879

Death: 1935

Biography:

Carl Gustaf Bergsten was a Swedish architect born on May 10, 1879, in Norrköping, Sweden. He graduated in 1901 from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and three years later from the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. He apprenticed with architects Isak Gustaf Clason and Erik Lallerstedt. Bergsten ran his own architectural firm from 1904-35. He was influenced by the National Romantic style and Functionalism. He designed a number of exhibition spaces including Liljevalchs konsthall. For the Norrköping Exhibition of Art and Industry in 1906, Bergsten designed the exhibition's two main buildings the Industrial Hall and the Art Exhibition Hall as well as the Hunting Pavilion. He is most known for being the architect behind the art gallery Liljevalchs in Stockholm, but was also one of the most prominent Swedish furniture designers and was the chief for NK's furniture department from 1916-21. He was also a building councilor in the Building Council from 1925-31 and temporary professor in architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology from 1925-31. He died on April 22, 1935, in Stockholm.