Ernst Stenhammar

Ernst Wilhelm Emanuel Stenhammar (26 March 1859 – 9 March 1927) was a Swedish architect. He was active both as an independent architect and as a teacher and eventually professor of architecture in Stockholm. The main bulk of his designs as an independent architect were made for banks and hospitals. Biography Ernst Stenhammar was born and raised in Stockholm. He was the son of the architect and composer Per Ulrik Stenhammar (1829-1875) and brother of the composer Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871–1927). He studied architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology under Albert Theodor Gellerstedt between 1877 and 1882. While still a student, he began an apprenticeship at the architectural firm of Magnus Isæus and also made a study trip to Paris in 1881. After finishing his studies at the Royal Institute of Technology, he continued to pursue studies in architecture at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts under Claes Grundström. He finished his studies at the Academy in 1884; in 1883 he made another study trip to Gotland, to study the churches of Gotland and the architecture of Visby. He also began to teach at the Academy himself, together with Agi Lindgren and his friend Ferdinand Boberg. After leaving the Academy in 1884 he returned to the Royal Institute of Technology as a teacher. He continued to be active as a teacher of architecture until 1905 (in 1990, he was appointed professor of architecture). In parallel, he worked as an independent architect (after an initial period as an assistant to Isak Gustaf Clason). His professional career as an architect can be said to have started already in 1887. Ernst Stenhammar has been described as a "somewhat harsh but generous and with a drastic sense of humour". Like his father and brother he was fond of music. He was married with Edla Maria Carolina Anna von Schoultz between 1895 and 1910, and in 1911 married for the second time with actress Anna Flygare-Stenhammar. With his second wife, he had three children.