Hartvig Sverdrup Eckhoff
Architect
1855 – 1928
Who was Hartvig Sverdrup Eckhoff?
Hartvig Sverdrup Eckhoff was a Norwegian architect.
He took his education at the Technical University of Munich, and opened an architect's office in Stavanger in 1881. He was assigned to design several important city buildings; the first was Rogaland Teater, erected in 1883. He later designed the Stavanger Gymnastics Association, Stavanger Museum and Stavanger Hospital. All these buildings are characterized by historicism, Neo-Renaissance architectural revival style, the latter with a different expression, performed mostly in raw red brick. Eckhoff designed several villas in western Norway, and distinguished himself as a church architect. His designs included Haukedalen church in Førde, Bore in Klepp, Skånevik, and Ask. Besides his architect work, he was a teacher at Stavanger Cathedral School for thirty-three years.
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