Alvar Aalto
Architect
1898 – 1976
Who was Alvar Aalto?
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer, as well as a sculptor and painter. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware. Aalto's early career runs in parallel with the rapid economic growth and industrialization of Finland during the first half of the twentieth century and many of his clients were industrialists; among these were the Ahlström-Gullichsen family. The span of his career, from the 1920s to the 1970s, is reflected in the styles of his work, ranging from Nordic Classicism of the early work, to a rational International Style Modernism during the 1930s to a more organic modernist style from the 1940s onwards. His furniture designs were considered Scandinavian Modern. What is typical for his entire career, however, is a concern for design as a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art; whereby he – together with his first wife Aino Aalto – would design not just the building, but give special treatments to the interior surfaces and design furniture, lamps, and furnishings and glassware. The Alvar Aalto Museum, designed by Aalto himself, is located in what is regarded as his home city Jyväskylä.
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- Born
- Feb 3, 1898
Kuortane - Also known as
- Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto
- אלבר אלטו
- Αλβάρ Αάλτο
- Аалто, Алвар
- 阿尔瓦·阿尔托
- Аалто Алвар Гуґо
- 阿尔瓦尔·阿尔托
- Parents
- Spouses
- Aino Aalto
(1925 - 1949) - Elissa Aalto
(1952 - 1976/05/11)
- Aino Aalto
- Children
- Nationality
- Finland
- Profession
- Education
- Helsinki University of Technology
(1916 - 1921)
- Helsinki University of Technology
- Died
- May 11, 1976
Helsinki - Resting place
- Hietaniemi cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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