Holm Hansen Munthe (1 January 1848 – 23 May 1898) was a Norwegian architect. He was a leading representative of dragon style architecture (''Dragestil'') which originated in Norway and was widely used principally between 1880 and 1910.

Biography

Holm Hansen Munthe was born at

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, Norway. He was the son of

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(1817–1884) and Karen Emilie Hansen (1820–1884). His father was a military officer and government official. In the early 1870s, he was an apprentice in Christiania (now Oslo) and a student at the drawing school of

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. He graduated from Hannover Polytechnikum in 1877. He was assistant of architect

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before returning to Norway in 1878. Between 1878 and 1885 he cooperated with

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(1842-1929) and wholesaler Alfred Larsen (1863-1950). The company was principally involved in developments in the neighborhood of Holmenkollena in

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. Munthe designed a number of structures in

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architectural style as part of this development including the well-known

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Restaurant from 1890 and the Holmenkollen Turisthotell, which was built in 1889, but burned in 1895. Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, vacationing in Norway, noticed these buildings and commissioned the erection of his

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; however these buildings were largely destroyed after

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, remnants of the Lodge are used as the seat of the administration at the

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''Holm Hansen Munthe (1848–1898)''
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In 1898 Munthe was appointed city architect in

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, but he died before actually assuming office. He was buried at

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in Oslo.

Selected works

*Vestby Church (1885) *Brattvær Church (1885) *Holmenkollen Turisthotell (1889-90, burned 1895) *

restaurant (1891, re-built 1909) * Bolteløkka School (1898) *Lilleborg School (1898)

References

External links

Family genealogy
1848 births 1898 deaths People from Stange University of Hanover alumni 19th-century Norwegian architects Burials at the Cemetery of Our Saviour {{norway-architect-stub