Fyodor Ivanovich Lidval (russian: Фёдор Иванович Лидваль,

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:Johan Fredrik Lidvall) (June 1 (June 13) 1870,

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

– 1945,

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) was a Russian-Swedish architect.

Life

Lidvall was born in

into a family of Swedes. In 1882 he attended elementary school at the Swedish Church of St. Catherine, and then the second Petersburg Technical High School in 1888. For two years he worked in Baron Stieglitz's School of Technical Drawing. From 1890 to 1896 Lidvall was a student in the architectural department of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, studying (1894–1896) in the workshop of the eminent architect

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. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1896 with the title "Artist-Architect". From 1909 he was a member of the Academy of Architecture, an arm of the

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. In 1917, ruined by the

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, he was forced to emigrate to his family in

, ending the most fruitful period of his work which is connected with St. Petersburg, although he designed several buildings in Stockholm . In Stockholm, Lidvall worked as an architect. He mainly constructed apartment buildings, but also the head office for Shell in Stockholm. He died in 1945 and is buried in Stockholm in

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Works

Lidvall began to play a significant role in the architecture of St. Petersburg in the first decade of the Twentieth Century. At the beginning of his career, he was a typical follower of the prevailing

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style. One of his early works was an apartment building of the type called in Russia a "finance house", on Kamennoostrov Prospect in St Petersburg, begun in 1899 and completed in 1904. The structure was also known as the "Lidval House" as he received the commission from his mother, Ida Amalia Lidval. This building, with its

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windows, abundance of decorative elements, and different colors and textures, is often cited as a model of its style. Lidvall himself lived in this house until his exile in 1918. He designed the Azov-Don Commercial Bank Building in St. Petersburg (1907–1813), already showing his characteristic restraint and use of classical elements (the center of the building includes a portico with columns). Lidvall also built structures for the Azov-Don Commercial Bank in

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, and

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, the

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on Trinity Street (now St. Rubenstein Street) with another facade overlooking the

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, and many other buildings. Included among these was the six-storey Hotel Astoria, which opened in 1912 and was one of the most luxurious hotels in the Russian Empire.William C Brumfield. ''Landmarks of Russian Architecture''. Routledge (UK), 1997. . pp. 217–218. He designed (with his mentor Leon Benois) the Art Nouveau redesign of the

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, which had been opened in 1875. Both the Hotel Astoria and Grand Hotel Europe are open to this day as five-star hotels. File:Lidval House antrance2.jpg, Entrance to Lidval House File:Hotel Astoria.jpg, Lidval's Astoria Hotel File:Lesnoy Nobel dohodny dom.jpg, Lidval's house for Alfred Nobel on Lesnoy Prospect File:Lesnoy Prospect, 21 Nobel's residence detail3.jpg, Entrance to Alfred Nobel house File:Sankt-Petěrburg 046.jpg, Lidval's Azov-Don Commercial Bank Building File:TolstovskyDom.jpg, Lidval's Tolstoy House File:Tolst7.JPG, Arches at Tolstoy House File:Tolst3.JPG, Another view of arches at Tolstoy House File:Tolst det.JPG, Tolstoy House detail File:Shellhuset, Stockholm.jpg, Shell House in Stockholm

References

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'' (Большая советская энциклопедия) *''Fyodor Lidval'' (Федор Лидваль), Valery Isachenko. 1987, Lenizdat *''Architects of St. Petersburgh, Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries'' (Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга. XIX — начало XX века), Valery Isachenko, Yuri Artemiev, S. Prohvatilova, editors. 1998, Lenizdat. *''Architectural monuments of Leningrad'' (Памятники архитектуры Ленинграда), 1975, Stroiizdat
List of Lidval's structures

Lidval entry at St. Petersburg Encyclopedia

Lidval entry at Pro Peter, the virtual encyclopedia of St. Petersburg

Brief biography, list of works, and list of reference works at stateyki.org.ua

Description of Lidval's Tolstoy House at stateyki.org.ua
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lidval, Fyodor Architects from Saint Petersburg Russian people of Swedish descent 1870 births 1945 deaths Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Sweden Art Nouveau architects