Hartvig Sverdrup Eckhoff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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norwegian architect
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Place of Birth: Kristiansand, Southern Norway, Norway
About Hartvig Sverdrup Eckhoff
- Hartvig Sverdrup Eckhoff (30 December 1855 – 17 February 1928) 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 (1891), Stavanger Museum (1893) and Stavanger Hospital (1897).
- 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 (1885), Bore in Klepp (1891), Skånevik ( 1900), and Ask (1908).
- Besides his architect work, he was a teacher at Stavanger Cathedral School for thirty-three years.
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