Woodland Crematorium, Woodland Cemetery, Stockholm, Sweden, Second version: exterior elevation
Erik Gunnar Asplund
Swedish, 1885–1940
1935
An architectural elevation rendered in graphite on tracing paper on board by Erik Gunnar Asplund, proposing a long, low crematorium that seeks to harmonize modernist form with the cemetery's woodland setting.
Seen as a pale, panoramic sweep of delicate, measured lines and faint washes, the drawing balances low pavilions, a slender chimney and carefully placed trees so that building and landscape read as a single, tranquil composition.
Part of Asplund’s work for Skogskyrkogården, this design helped define a 20th‑century approach to funerary architecture that married modernist clarity with landscape ritual and influenced cemetery design worldwide.
Medium
Graphite on tracing paper on board
Dimensions
12 1/8 x 33" (30.8 x 83.8 cm)
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Credit
Gift of Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller, Mrs. Gifford Phillips, Celeste and Armand P. Bartos, Mrs. S. I. Newhouse, Jr., and purchase
Accession
55.1990
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