Axel Høeg-Hansen (27 June 1877 – 30 August 1947) was a Danish architect. Stylistically he mainly worked in neoclassical and functionalist styles. He primarily worked in and around

Aarhus Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and approximately northwest ...

at the turn of the 20th century.

Background

Axel Høeg-Hansen was born at Frederiksberg in Copenhagen. is parents were Henrik Hansen and Alma Isabella Clausen. He attended vocational school for business in 1893–94 and went on to become a master mason in 1897. He attended vocational technical school from which he graduated in 1898 and was then admitted to the architect school of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where he studied between 1898 and 1907 and graduated with a degree in architecture. Høeg-Hansen worked for

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in 1898; Claudius August Wiinholt between 1898–99; Fritz Koch between 1900 and 1905 and Anton Rosen between 1907 and 1909. He had his own architects company in Aarhus from 1909 and held an exhibition on the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition the same year. From 1935 to 1940 his company was jointly run with

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. Høeg-Hansen received K.A. Larssens Legat 1905–06, bronze medal at the Danish National Exhibition of 1909, the silver medal in 1920 for Atletion and received the

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's honorary medal in 1939. He represented Denmark in the discipline architecture at the

1928 Summer Olympics The 1928 Summer Olympics ( nl, Olympische Zomerspelen 1928), officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad ( nl, Spelen van de IXe Olympiade) and commonly known as Amsterdam 1928, was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from ...

in Amsterdam. He was a member of the board of Architects' Association of Denmark from 1909 to 1919 and chairman of the department of Jutland from 1933 to 1938. Høeg-Hansen built many notable structures in Aarhus and left his mark across the city. He designed

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(1917), Atletion (1920), the yellow city blocks in Park Allé and at Banegårdspladsen (1920s), Aarhus County Hospital (1935) and neighborhoods in the southern part of the city.

Personal life

He was married on 23 June 1909 in Helgenæs to lnga Pauline Liggern Hansen. Høeg-Hansen became Knight of the

Order of the Dannebrog The Order of the Dannebrog ( da, Dannebrogordenen) is a Danish order of chivalry instituted in 1671 by Christian V. Until 1808, membership in the order was limited to fifty members of noble or royal rank, who formed a single class known a ...

1924 and Dannebrogsmand in 1935. He died in 1947 at Frederiksværk and was buried on

Solbjerg Parkkirkegård Solbjerg is a south-western suburb of Aarhus in Denmark and one of the outer suburbs of Aarhus. It is located 17 km. from the city centre and has a population of 4,240 (1 January 2022).

in Frederiksbjerg.

Selected works

* Regina, Søndergade (1918) * ''Slippen'' (1918) Port of Aarhus administrative building * Atletion (1916–18) * Banegårdspladsen, Park Allé, Søndergade and Ryesgade. Urban planning project in Aarhus (late 1920s). *

Aarhus County Hospital Aarhus County Hospital, or Aarhus Sygehus, Tage-Hansens Gade, was a hospital in Aarhus for 136 years, from 1882 to 2018. The hospital became a part of Aarhus University Hospital in 2011 in an administrative merger. In 2018, all hospital functio ...

(1931, with

) * Roskilde County Hospital (1937–40, with Harald Salling-Mortensen and Hans Schmidt) * Administrative building for Frichs in Åbyhøj

Gallery

File:Århus Kunstbygning 2.JPG, Kunsthal Aarhus (1917) File:Regina-krydset 01.jpg, Regina building File:Atletion.jpg, Atletion stadium File:Park alle tidlig morgen.jpg, Park Allé File:Hotel Ritz Aarhus (front).jpg , Hotel Ritz Aarhus, Park Allé File:Banegårdspladsen (facade) 04.jpg, Banegårdspladsen, facade detail (1929) File:Entrance to Amtssygehuset in Aarhus.jpg, Aarhus County Hospital main entrance

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