Woodland Crematorium, Stockholm, Sweden, Exterior-perspective study
Erik Gunnar Asplund
Swedish, 1885–1940
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A graphite-on-tracing-paper exterior perspective study for Erik Gunnar Asplund's Woodland Crematorium in Stockholm, in which the architect tests how a colonnaded entrance and open landscape will shape the experience of mourning and solitude.
A low, expansive horizon is interrupted at right by a rhythmic row of monumental round columns beneath a deep overhang, while faintly sketched figures, trees, and distant pavilions give quiet scale and a hushed, contemplative atmosphere.
The drawing embodies Asplund's modern Nordic synthesis of classical order and restrained naturalism, a key moment in interwar architecture that influenced how public and memorial spaces balanced formality with intimacy.
Medium
Graphite on tracing paper
Dimensions
25 3/4 x 40" (65.4 x 101.6 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller, Mrs. Gifford Phillips, Celeste and Armand P. Bartos, Mrs. S. I. Newhouse, Jr., and purchase
Accession
61.1990
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