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Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen (/ ˈ s ɑːr ɪ n ə n /, Finnish: [ˈelie̯l ˈsɑːrinen]; August 20, 1873 – July 1, 1950) was a Finnish-American architect known for his work with art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century.
Jun 27, 2024 · Eliel Saarinen, one of the foremost architects and urban planners of his generation in Finland before moving to the United States, where he influenced modern architecture, particularly skyscraper and church design.
Aug 20, 2017 · Though some may now know him only as the father of Eero Saarinen, Eliel Saarinen (August 20, 1873 – July 1, 1950) was an accomplished and style-defining architect in his own right.
Eliel Saarinen. Eliel Gottlieb Saarinen was born on 20 August 1873 in Rantasalmi, Southern Savonia. Saarinen’s parents were vicar Juho Saarinen and Selma Saarinen (nee Broms). Eliel Saarinen took his matriculation examination in 1893 and began his studies at the Polytechnical School of Helsinki and the Drawing School of The Art Society of ...
Aug 20, 2018 · Eliel Saarinen, born in Finland 1873, was arguably the northern nation’s “most noted early modernist architect” and worked at the forefront of the Finnish offshoot of National Romanticism ...
Mar 31, 2022 · Eliel Saarinen (1873–1950) was the first Finnish architect to rise to international fame in the early 20th century. His importance to Finnish architecture is indisputable. In this blog, we will explore his collection of drawings which have been the key collection of the Museum of Finnish Architecture since the museum’s beginning.
Informed by the personal and professional letters of Eliel and Eero Saarinen, interviews, and historical archives, we embark on an extraordinary story of a great father of artistic and timeless architecture: Eliel Saarinen.
Eliel Saarinen achieved international fame at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries as a designer of art nouveau buildings in Finland. The directions of growth outlined in his urban planning for Helsinki have become reality only recently.
May 21, 2018 · Finnish-born American architect. He practised with Herman Gesellius and Armas Lindgren from 1896 to 1905, and with Gesellius only until 1907, when he worked on his own, emigrating to the USA in 1923.
Eliel Saarinen developed the art of drawing into its zenith during his American period. In Finland, the best examples of this skill are his sketches for banknotes. They aroused heated debate, for the naked figures he suggested were highly unconventional motifs at the time, especially in banknotes.
