Carl Gustav Swensson (also spelled ''Svensson''; 15 June 1861 – 13 April 1910) was a

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Biography

Swensson was born in

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and educated by his father, Anders Gustaf Svensson. In 1880 or 1881 he moved to

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, Germany, where he worked until 1887 as an assistant of the city gardener Jöns Persson Lindahl. In 1887 he moved to

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, the capital of Austria. From 1891 he worked in

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, Switzerland, and then again in Vienna. In today's

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, in 1891, he implemented a project for a park around the Hungarian Wool Fabric, Military Clothing and Blankets Factory in Žilina (

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: ''Ungarische Wollwaren, Militärtuch- und Deckenfabrik Actiengesellschaft in Sillein''). After 1900, he was primarily designing the parks in the spa town

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. Since 1906, he worked in the territory of the nowadays Slovenia for the family Pongratz. He designed the park around the Zora Villa in

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and of Šenek Mansion in

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. He also designed the park of Maruševec Mansion in

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. Swensson received numerous prizes for his work. In 2000 a memorial plaque dedicated to him was unveiled in

.In 2021 a park designed by Swensson in 1891, located in

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, Slovakia, was renamed after him. At the same time, a memorial was unveiled.

Gallery

File:Carl Gustav Swensson Memorial.jpg, Carl Gustav Swensson Memorial in

File:Pamätník Carla Gustava Swenssona.jpg, Carl Gustav Swensson Memorial File:Carl Gustav Swenssons Minnesmärke i Žilina.jpg, Portrait of Carl Gustav Swensson File:Súlovské skály - Gotická brána.jpg, "Gotická brána" in the

Súľov Rocks The Súľov Rocks () is a national nature reserve situated within the Súľov Mountains region of Slovakia. It was declared in 1973 and is located in the Bytča District in Žilina Region. Rocky crags take the shape of towers, cones, needles, ga ...

was the inspiration for the memorial File:Carl Gustav Swensson Pillar.jpg, QR code next to the memorial

References

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