National Romantic style

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National Romantic style in Finland — Tampere Cathedral.

The National Romantic style was a Nordic architectural style that was part of the National Romantic movement during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is often considered to be a form of Art Nouveau.

History

The National Romantic style spread across Finland; the Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden; the Baltic countries of Estonia and Latvia, as well as Russia (mainly St. Petersburg). Unlike much nostalgic Gothic Revival style architecture elsewhere, National Romantic architecture expressed progressive social and political ideals, through reformed domestic architecture.[1]

Designers turned to early medieval architecture and even prehistoric precedents to construct a style appropriate to the perceived character of a people. The style can be seen as a reaction to industrialism and an expression of the same "Dream of the North" nationalism that gave impetus to renewed interest in the eddas and sagas.

Examples


Gallery

Finland

Saint Petersburg (Russia)

  • Melzer Revenue house

  • Kapustin house

  • Bazhanov house

  • Vollenweider house

  • Putilova house (House with owls)

  • Schmidt house

  • Shcherbov Estate Museum

  • Kshessinsky mansion

  • Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes

References

  1. ↑ Barbara Miller Lane, National Romanticism and Modern Architecture in Germany and the Scandinavian Countries (New York: Cambridge University Press), 2000:10.

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