Harald Sund
| Harald Sund | |
|---|---|
 Harald Sund c. 1920 | |
| Born |
February 16, 1876 Gildeskål, Norway |
| Died |
April 9, 1940 (aged 64) Oslo, Norway |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Occupation | Architect |
Harald Thorbjørn Sund (February 16, 1876 – April 9, 1940) was a Norwegian architect and painter.
Sund was born in Gildeskål in Nordland County.[1][2] He established himself as an architect in Kristiania after studying in Trondheim and 16 years of study and work in England. In collaboration with the architect and head of planning in Aker, August Nielsen, he designed a number of churches and other buildings throughout Norway during the first years of the 1900s. Among other things, he was invited to draw up plans for district housing and he won the competition for the Fredrikstad library, beating out over 70 other participants.
Harald Sund is considered Northern Norway's foremost church and church restoration architect of the 1920s and 1930s. In his report to the Ministry of Church and Education on the inauguration of Rotsund Chapel in 1932, Bishop Eivind Berggrav enthusiastically wrote the following: "The architect Sund has here once again created a church that gives him much honor and the church great joy."[3]
He married the English painter Renée Finch in London in 1913. Sund was also a painter and with Renée was a founding member of the London Group along with Walter Sickert, Robert Bevan, and Harold Gilman.[4] The couple also exhibited at the Royal Academy, the NEAC, and at Brighton Art Gallery at the notorious Camden Town Group show called "English Post-Impressionists, Cubists and Others." This included experimental work by Jacob Epstein, Wyndham Lewis, and others that shocked many that saw the exhibition, which ran from December 16, 1913 to January 14, 1914.[5] Although none of the experimental work sold, the more conventional work by Sund and Finch did find buyers. Sund also illustrated books; notably, Ravenna, a Study by Edward Hutton and The Charm of Venice by Alfred Hyatt. At the outbreak of the First World War, he and his wife moved to Norway, where he concentrated on his architectural career.
Selected works
- Fredrikstad library (Fredrikstad, 1922, protected)
- Kroer Church (Ås, 1925)
- Majorstuen Church (Oslo, 1926/1933)
- Melbu Church (Melbu, 1938)
- Rotsund Chapel (Nordreisa, 1932)
- Sigerfjord Church (Sigerfjord, 1933)
- Skiptvet Church (Skiptvet, 1937)
- St. Dominic Church and Monastery (Oslo, 1927)
- Svanvik Church (Sør-Varanger, 1934)
- Svolvær Church (Vågan, 1934)
References
- 1 2 Norsk kunstnerleksikon, vol. 4 : Sp-Å, pp. 112–113.
- 1 2 Årsberetning. Foreningen til norske fortidsminnesmerkers bevaring. 1941. Oslo: Grøndahl & Søns, pp. 3 ff.
- ↑ Arkitekturguide for Nord-Norge og Svalbard: Rotsund kirke
- ↑ http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/camden-town-group/malcolm-easton-the-camden-twon-group-into-the-london-group-some-intimate-glimpses
- ↑ Moorby, Nicola. 2009. London to Brighton: The Indian Summer of the Camden Town Group. In: Lara Feigel & Alexandra Harris (eds.), Modernism on Sea: Art and Culture at the British Seaside, pp. 55–70. Oxford: Peter Lang.