Schak August Steenberg Bull (10 May 1858 – 25 January 1956) was a Norwegian architect.
Personal life
He was born in
Ă…rstad as the son of
Colonel
Colonel (abbreviated as Col., Col or COL) is a senior military officer rank used in many countries. It is also used in some police forces and paramilitary organizations.
In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, a colonel was typically in charge of ...
Jens Munthe Bull (1815-1905) and his wife Johanne Margrethe Hagerup (1817-1888).
[Schak Bull genealogy]
/ref> His brother Edvard Hagerup Bull
Edvard Hagerup Bull (23 January 1855 – 25 March 1938) was a Norwegian jurist and assessor of the Supreme Court of Norway. He was a member of the Norwegian Parliament and government official with the Conservative Party of Norway.
Background
Ed ...
was a judge and politician, and his maternal grandfather was politician Edvard Hagerup
Edvard Eilersen Hagerup (9 September 1781 – 29 March 1853) was a Norwegian solicitor and politician.
Hagerup was born in the city of Kristiansand in Lister og Mandals amt, Norway. He was the son of Bishop Eiler (Kongel) Hagerup (b. 1718) an ...
. Also, he was a nephew of composer Ole Bull
Ole Bornemann Bull (; 5 February 181017 August 1880) was a Norwegian virtuoso violinist and composer. According to Robert Schumann, he was on a level with Niccolò Paganini for the speed and clarity of his playing.
Biography
Background
Bull was ...
and architect Georg Andreas Bull
Georg Andreas Bull (26 March 1829 – 1 February 1917) was a Norwegian architect and chief building inspector in Christiania (now Oslo) for forty years. He was among the major architects in the country, and performed surveying studies and arche ...
, an uncle of composer Sverre Hagerup Bull and a cousin of architect Henrik Bull
Henrik Bull (28 March 1864 – 2 June 1953) was a Norwegian architect and designer. Among his works are the Paulus Church at GrĂĽnerløkka in Oslo, the National Theater, the Historical Museum in Oslo, and the Government Building. He also d ...
and composer Edvard Grieg
Edvard Hagerup Grieg ( , ; 15 June 18434 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the foremost Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use of ...
.
In April 1884 he married Ivarna Berle.[
]
Career
Schak Bull graduated from the ''Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
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'' or ''ETH ZĂĽrich'' (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich) in 1879, after which he returned to 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 ...
, Norway
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to work as an architect. He was responsible for several important buildings, including Troldhaugen
Troldhaugen is the former home of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg and his wife Nina Grieg. Troldhaugen is located in Bergen, Norway and consists of the Edvard Grieg Museum, Grieg's villa, the hut where he composed music, and his and his wife's g ...
, the residence of his cousin Edvard Grieg, several churches and commercial buildings. He adhered mainly to the architectural style historicism
Historicism is an approach to explaining the existence of phenomena, especially social and cultural practices (including ideas and beliefs), by studying their history, that is, by studying the process by which they came about. The term is widely u ...
before 1900, and Jugendstil
''Jugendstil'' ("Youth Style") was an artistic movement, particularly in the decorative arts, that was influential primarily in Germany and elsewhere in Europe to a lesser extent from about 1895 until about 1910. It was the German counterpart of ...
after 1900. From 1914 he formed a partnership with his son Jens Munthe Bull.[
Bull was also a member of Bergen city council.][
In total he was the architect of 186 buildings in Bergen, as well as several in other parts of the country, although many of these have been lost in fires.][ He died in 1956 in Bergen, at the age of 98 years.][
]
References
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1858 births
1956 deaths
Architects from Bergen
ETH Zurich alumni
Politicians from Bergen