Harald Waldemar Bødtker (May 10, 1855 – March 12, 1925) was a Norwegian architect.

Biography

Bødtker was born at Overhalla in

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, Norway. He was raised in the valley of Namdalen. He started his career as an assistant for architects Henrik Nissen and

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in Kristiania (now Oslo). He attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna where he studied under Danish born architect

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from 1880 to 1883. He then worked as assistant to Theophilus Hansen in Vienna until around 1889. Bødtker worked at German based architectural offices in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro from 1890 to 1892. He then spent time as construction manager in Petrópolis which was the summer residence of the

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and aristocrats in the 19th century.Trond Marinus Indahl
''Harald Bødtker''
Norsk kunstnerleksikon In 1896, he opened his own architectural practice at Kristiania. Bødtker was the municipal architect of

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from 1899 to 1923 and was involved in designing a number of churches and especially schools in what is now Oslo. Among his extensive work were additions to

Aker University Hospital Oslo University Hospital, Aker (also known as Aker Hospital or just Aker) is one of the four main campuses of Oslo University Hospital. It was an independent hospital from 1895 to 2009, under the name Aker Hospital and from 2002 Aker University Ho ...

completed between 1917 and 1922. He died in Oslo.

Selected works

Grorud Church Grorud Church is a cruciform church from 1902 located on the upper Grorud in Grorud in Oslo, Norway. The church is located on a hill and is visible from many parts of the Grorud Valley. The building is made of local Grorud Granite stone (Grefse ...

(1900–1902) * Grefsen Chapel at

Grefsen Church Grefsen Church is a long church ( no, langkirke) located in Grefsen, a neighborhood of Oslo, Norway. The church was consecrated by Bishop Eivind Berggrav on March 3, 1940 and it is the parish church of the Grefsen Parish. It is built of brick, ha ...

(1901–1904) *

Ullern Church Ullern Church ( no, Ullern kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Sør-Odal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the village of Ullern, Innlandet, Ullern. It is the church for the Ullern parish which is part of ...

(1904) * University Hall at the University of Oslo (1909–1911, together with

Holger Sinding-Larsen Peter Andreas Holger Sinding-Larsen (5 July 1869 – 12 December 1938) was a Norwegian architect. He is most associated with his work at Akershus Fortress, where he was a member of the restoration committee and architect from 1905 to 19 ...

) *

Bekkelaget Church Bekkelaget Church is a long church ( no, langkirke) located in Bekkelaget in Nordstrand, a district of Oslo, Norway. The church is built of stone and can accommodate 370 or 420 people. The parish of Bekkelaget was split from the parish of Nords ...

(1920–1923) * Gjerpen Church (rebuilt 1921)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bodtker, Harald 1855 births 1925 deaths Architects from Oslo People from Nord-Trøndelag Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni