Carl Gustaf Bergsten (10 May 1879 in

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- 22 April 1935 in

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) was a

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. He graduated in 1901 from the

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and three years later from the

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in Stockholm. A scholarship took him to

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and to

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. He apprenticed with architects

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and Erik Lallerstedt. Bergsten ran his own architectural firm from 1904-35. He was influenced by the

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and Functionalism. He designed a number of exhibition spaces including

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. For the

Norrköping Exhibition of Art and Industry Norrköping Exhibition of Art and Industry () was an exhibition in Norrköping, Sweden in 1906. At the initiative of the local industrial association ''Norrköpings Fabriksförening och Handtverksförening'' it was decided an art and industrial e ...

in 1906, Bergsten designed the exhibition's two main buildings the Industrial Hall (''Industrihallen'') and the Art Exhibition Hall (''Konsthallen'') as well as the Hunting Pavilion (''Jaktpaviljongen'').

Selected works

(1906) *

(1916) * Swedish Pavilion

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in Paris (1925) *

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, Exhibition of Swedish Contemporary Decorative Arts, installation design (1927) *

Gothenburg City Theatre Gothenburg City Theatre () opened in 1934 at Götaplatsen square in Gothenburg, Sweden. The theatre was designed by Swedish architect Carl Bergsten who gave the exterior a Neoclassical architecture, Neo-Classical look with a touch of Streamline ...

(1934)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bergsten, Carl Swedish architects 1879 births 1935 deaths People from Norrköping KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni