Georg Jens Greve (July 28, 1884 – January 4, 1973) was a

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architect.

Biography

Greve was born in

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...

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/ref> He was the brother of the artist Bernhard Greve (1886–1962), and was the cousin of the architect Bredo Greve (1871–1931) and the weaving and tapestry expert

Ulrikke Greve Ulrikke Eleonore Sigwardt Greve (1868–1951) was a leading Norwegian textile artist in the early 20th-century, excelling in tapestry work. In 1900, she was appointed director of the weaving school at the National Museum of Decorative Arts (Norden ...

(1868–1951). He is best known for preparing the zoning plan for Bergen together with

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after the

Bergen fire of 1916 The Bergen fire of 1916 was an urban fire that took place on January 15 and 16, 1916 and burned many of the buildings in Bergen, Norway. Except for the buildings on ''Rådstuplassen'' (City Hall Square), all of the buildings in Bergen's center di ...

. Greve is also the single person that had the greatest influence on shaping the modern center of Bergen built between 1920 and 1940. After taking his university qualifying exams in 1904 and graduating from the first class at the Military Academy in 1905, Greve went to Trondheim, where he was admitted to the Trondheim Technical School ( no, Trondhjems Tekniske Læreanstalt), which he graduated from in 1909. After this he worked with the architects

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and

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in Bergen until 1911, and he then headed the Stavanger Cement Factor Architects Office until 1914. He then moved to Stockholm, where he worked with the architect

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until 1916 and was involved in construction of

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.Semmingsen, Ingrid. 1980. ''Et Folk i fred og krig''. Oslo: Aschehoug, p. 229. Greve established his own bureau in Bergen in 1916, where he won second prize in the competition for the zoning plan after the fire that same year. In 1923 he was appointed the municipal architect for

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; he held the position until 1948, when he then became the city architect of Oslo. In 1950 he established his own office in Oslo, and in 1954 he founded the company Greve and Grung Architects ( no, Arkitektene Greve og Grung) together with Geir Grung.''Saur Allgemeines Künstler Lexikon''. 2009. Munich: K.G. Saur, p. 486. He died in

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Selected works

*Høybråten Church, 1932 *Nedre Bekkelaget School, 1938 *Sinsen School, 1938 *Røa Church, 1939 *Grefsen Church, 1940 *Tonsen Church, 1961 *Årvoll School, 1961 *Høyenhall School, 1972

Gallery

File:Høybråten kirke 1.jpg, Høybråten Church, 1932 File:Bekkelaget skole.JPG, Bekkelaget School, 1938 File:Röa kirke IMG 0129 rk 85329.JPG, Røa Church,1939 File:Grefsen kirke 20080531-1.jpg, Grefsen Church, 1940 File:Tonsen Kirke 1.jpg, Tonsen Church, 1961

References

External links

''Localhistoriewiki'': Georg Jens Greve
{{DEFAULTSORT:Greve, Georg 1884 births 1973 deaths Architects from Bergen Norwegian University of Science and Technology alumni