Woodland Crematorium, Stockholm, Sweden, Exterior elevation of loggia
Erik Gunnar Asplund
Swedish, 1885–1940
1937
A measured elevation drawing, drawn in graphite on tracing paper, of the loggia for Erik Gunnar Asplund’s Woodland Crematorium that aims to translate a solemn, architectural idea into a calm, ordered facade for a funerary landscape.
What strikes you is the restrained, rhythmic clarity of the measured lines and soft graphite washes—columns, a quietly monumental sculpture, and suggestion of trees align in a serene, almost cinematic sequence.
The sheet records Asplund’s decisive fusion of modernist simplicity with classical monumentality in cemetery architecture, a design moment that helped shape 20th‑century approaches to ceremonial landscape and modern public architecture.
Medium
Graphite on tracing paper
Dimensions
11 5/8 x 33" (29.5 x 83.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, 3rd, Mrs. Gifford Phillips, Celeste and Armand P. Bartos, Mrs. S. I. Newhouse, Jr., and purchase
Accession
63.1990
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