Fritz Herman Vilhelm Eckert, (25 April 1852 - 6 March 1920) was a Swedish

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Biography

Fritz Herman Vilhelm Eckert was born in

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, Sweden. He attended the

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from 1871 to 1878 and spent 1879 travelling abroad. He was employed as an architect by the Swedish public construction service (''Överintendentsämbetet'') in 1878 and was made a curator of this service in 1904. From 1880 he lectured at the

-based

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. Eckert designed Curmanska Villan at Floragatan (1880), Royal Stables in Stockholm (1895), Antuna Gård in

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(1881),

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building in Stockholm (1905) and the

Mariestad Mariestad () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Mariestad Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 16,611 inhabitants in 2019. Until 1997 it was the capital of the former Skaraborg County and an episcopal see in the ...

City Library (1895–96) as well as contributing to numerous church restorations.

Gallery

File:Antuna gård 2009.jpg, Antuna Gård (1881) File:Hovstallet.jpg, Royal Stables (1895) File:Linden 12.JPG, Curmanska Villan (1880) File:Stadsbiblioteket, Mariestad 01.JPG, Mariestad City Library (1895–96)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Eckert, Fritz 1852 births 1920 deaths Architects from Stockholm Swedish architects Academic staff of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology