270:
favour of the King, and
Adelcrantz found himself increasingly sidelined. In 1787, the 72-year-old architect petitioned the King for permission to retire, giving both his failing health and financial difficulties as reasons. The petition was refused by the King; only in 1795 was Adelcrantz given permission to retire as överintendent, leaving the reins to his successor, Carl Fredrik Fredenheim, on 16 February. He had been active civil servant until his last days in office, and his last architectural design was for an altar for the parish church of Stockholms-Näs, made during these same last days, at the age of 80. He retired as president of the academy of Art a few months later, in June 1795. His last days, until he died in Stockholm in March 1796, was plagued by a painful cancer and increasing financial problems.
438:
423:
394:
357:
342:
409:
327:
372:
791:
218:
years before, but the stay in Paris appears to have been the beginning of a long friendship and an extensive but now-lost correspondence. The diary that he is known to have kept during his journey was mentioned as sold at auction in 1831, but also appears to be lost. After his return, he worked on the furnishing of the Palace which was finished in
November, when he was appointed a Knight of the
266:, spared him the political fate his father may once have feared for him, and he could undisturbed continue his work both as an architect and as a civil servant. The Academy of Arts received new statutes in 1773, and in 1776 the King granted the office of the överintendent a more complete control of all public building in the country, both as a result of Adelcrantz's initiative.
173:). The stay in Italy was a failure as far as recruiting new artists went, as the ones he wanted turned out to be far to expensive, but gave a rich yield in the form of architectural notes, books and art objects. Adelcrantz was back in Stockholm in late summer 1751. When Hårleman suddenly died in 1753, he was succeeded as
20:
101:
The elder
Adelcrantz did not intend for Carl Fredrik to follow in his professional footsteps; he had, for political reasons, lost his positions as court architect and city architect of Stockholm in 1727, and, under the circumstances, he regarded architecture as too insecure a profession for his son.
217:
as a successor to J. P. Bouchardon, who had died in
December 1753. In Paris, Adelcrantz sat for the portrait by Alexander Roslin that he later bequested to the Swedish Academy of Arts. Adelcrantz and Roslin may already have met in Stockholm before the latter left for the continent, or in Italy a few
269:
As a consequence of his journey to Italy and France in 1783-84, the King's stylistic ideals changed in a more radical classicist direction. Adelcrantz adapted to the changing architectural fashions, but younger architects whose sensibilities were more in line with the current trends advanced in the
202:
who was responsible for the royal building works, and extended during
Colbert's time to heading the royal manufacture of tapestries and porcelain. In the absence of royal factories of the French type, the Swedish office may in actuality been more closely have resembled the subordinate office of the
125:
that was under reconstruction after its first fire, and a tower for the
Finnish Church that never came to execution. Half a year after his father's death in 1739, Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz left his employment in Kammarrevisionen, and on 11 August 1739 he left Stockholm for France and Italy. Although
164:
that had been under continuous construction since the old Castle burnt down in 1697. He won the trust of Hårleman who recommended
Adelcrantz for a mission to Italy to recruit artists for the palace project, and secured the necessary funding for the journey, enabling Adelcrantz to leave in 1750,
302:
and
Adelcrantz's superior at the work on the Palace, and the dominant architect in his generation in Sweden. Adelcrantz' later architecture followed the trend towards a more classicist approach, one that lost some of the plastic character of the baroque and rococo architecture, instead making
314:
Adelcrantz' first commissions of significance were the
Ulriksdal Palace Theatre and the residential building in Stockholm that he originally designed for his brother-in-law Gustaf Samuel Ruuth (but would later take over himself), both from 1753, the year of Hårleman's death.
298:, known to have been owned by the elder Adelcrantz. By the time he came into his own as an architect, about 1750, Swedish design and architecture had been thoroughly penetrated by the French Rococo. Mainly responsible for this was Carl Hårleman,
212:
At the end of 1753, Adelcrantz was again given a foreign mission, now to Paris. In accordance with his instructions, he sent home a large number of models and engravings to be used for interior details in the latest fashion. He also contracted
126:
his notes from the journey have been lost, it is known that he spent two years in Paris and several months in Rome. In
December 1741, while he was still in Rome, Adelcrantz was given a position within the palace construction project. Count
61:, who had changed his name from Törnqvist at his ennoblement four years earlier. As a student in Uppsala, Göran Josua Törnqvist had been a member of the student theatre troupe known as Den Swänska Theatren that later performed in the
88:
Through his marriage in 1711 to the young widow Anna Maria Köhnmann, daughter of a wealthy businessman, Törnqvist's finances improved considerably. Among other things, he became the possessor of the manor of Signhildsberg near
115:
278:
Adelcrantz's earliest influences came from the Baroque architecture that he could study in the pattern books and engravings in his father's library; his first known design, the altar for the church of
121:
Göran Josua Adelcrantz did not attempt to suppress the artistic inclination of his son. Carl Fredrik took lessons in drawing and assisted his father in some tasks; he designed an altar for the
166:
443:
287:
836:
291:
634:
178:
768:(Monografier utgivna av Stockholms kommunalförvaltning, 20). Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell/Gebers förlag, 1957. (Dissertation, Stockholm University, 1957)
851:
93:. The next year Charles XII ennobled him, on the recommendation of his patron Tessin. Born in Stockholm, Carl Fredrik was the third child of the marriage.
134:
made sure that Adelcrantz would get the appointment. In late summer 1743, he started on his return journey to Sweden, arriving in Stockholm in November.
761:
651:
45:
in the early years of his career, to a classical idiom influenced by the stylistic developments in France in the mid-to-late 18th century. As
362:
144:
282:
in Stockholm from 1732 is in a Roman Baroque style favoured by Tessin, and may be influenced by an engraving of the similar altar by
37:(30 January 1716 – 1 March 1796) was a Swedish architect and civil servant. Adelcrantz's style developed from a rococo influenced by
831:
795:
160:. Adelcrantz would remain in the shadow of Hårleman for several years more, spending the 1740s as his assistant in the work on the
826:
755:
130:, to whom he had turned for a recommendation, had still to become convinced that his talent equaled that of his father, but
437:
650:
Fogelmarck 1957, p. 33 & 286, note 47 (the diary is known to have been bought at an auction in 1831 by the architect
81:. Göran Josua Adelcrantz remained in the shadow of the dominant Tessin; his most significant work was the cupola for the
196:
at the start of the planning for the new royal palace in 1697, with statutes modelled on the French royal office of the
332:
223:
393:
326:
214:
821:
422:
26:'s portrait of Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz made during the latter's stay in Paris in 1754 (in the collection of the
841:
58:
341:
247:
27:
356:
198:
193:
66:
846:
750:, ed. Magnus Olausson. Nationalmusei utställningskatalog, 0585-3222; 652. Stockholm: Nationalmuseum, (
205:
161:
149:
77:
began. Törnqvist had studied architecture before this and may have been discovered by Tessin for his
638:
371:
153:
219:
209:. The task of the office was later extended to all public building projects, including churches.
408:
238:
in 1767, Adelcrantz was appointed his successor. At the time, he had already held the title
816:
811:
263:
8:
258:, he briefly became a target of political bad-will from the side of the other party, the
157:
70:
49:, he headed the royal and public building works from 1767 until his retirement in 1795.
127:
170:
776:
751:
262:, after their rise to power in the Riksdag of 1771. The coup d'état of the new king,
74:
23:
131:
38:
347:
279:
142:
Beside his work in the palace construction, he was also given the court title of
122:
82:
414:
283:
255:
805:
399:
254:, one of the two dominant groups of the Swedish parliamentary system of the
259:
251:
19:
428:
57:
Adelcrantz was born in 1716 in Stockholm and was the son of the architect
78:
377:
62:
303:
buildings into ensembles of distinct architectural elements (such as
106:, Carl Fredrik began his career as a low-level civil servant in the
308:
304:
103:
90:
790:
42:
775:(Vitterhetsakademiens skriftserie Svenska lärde). Stockholm:
273:
222:. The same year also saw his election as a member of the
773:
Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz. Ett gustavianskt konstnärsöde.
296:
Disegni di vari altari e cappelle nelle chiese di Roma
65:
theatre in Stockholm. He came into the employment of
30:, Stockholm to which it was bequested by Adelcrantz)
181:, and Adelcrantz was given Cronstedt's position as
69:in 1697, the year the disastrous fire at the old
837:Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
803:
16:Swedish architect and civil servant (1716–1796)
148:and was attached to the court of Crown Prince
637:, mentions the correspondence in a letter to
633:Fogelmarck 1957, p. 34: Adelcrantz's nephew,
462:Alexander Roslin, ed. Magnus Olausson, p. 135
852:Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts
116:Administrative Court of Appeals in Stockholm
96:
137:
274:Adelcrantz's development as an architect
18:
311:), often emphasizing geometric shapes.
242:for ten years. With the position came,
52:
804:
234:After Cronstedt left the position of
73:took place and the planning for the
385:
13:
766:Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, arkitekt.
165:accompanied by the royal sculptor
14:
863:
783:
333:Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm
318:
224:Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
789:
436:
421:
407:
392:
370:
355:
340:
325:
229:
832:18th-century Swedish architects
741:
729:
720:
711:
702:
693:
684:
675:
666:
657:
644:
627:
618:
609:
600:
591:
582:
573:
564:
555:
546:
537:
102:After a short time of study in
528:
519:
510:
501:
492:
483:
474:
465:
456:
1:
827:18th-century Swedish nobility
28:Royal Swedish Academy of Arts
726:Fogelmarck 1957, pp. 212-216
194:Nicodemus Tessin the Younger
67:Nicodemus Tessin the Younger
7:
246:, that as president of the
167:Jacques Philippe Bouchardon
41:, the leading architect in
10:
868:
215:Pierre Hubert L'Archevêque
681:Fogelmarck 1957, p. 40-42
624:Fogelmarck 1994, p. 54-55
606:Fogelmarck 1957, p. 19-31
162:Royal Palace in Stockholm
690:Fogelmarck 1957, p. 42 f
672:Fogelmarck 1957, p. 39 f
450:
97:Studies and early career
796:Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz
220:Order of the Polar Star
35:Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz
822:Artists from Stockholm
735:Fogelmarck 1957, p. 00
717:Fogelmarck 1957, p. 46
708:Fogelmarck 1957, p. 45
699:Fogelmarck 1957, p. 45
663:Fogelmarck 1957, p. 36
615:Fogelmarck 1957, p. 32
597:Fogelmarck 1957, p. 19
588:Fogelmarck 1994, p. 22
579:Fogelmarck 1994, p. 21
570:Fogelmarck 1994, p. 21
561:Fogelmarck 1994, p. 22
552:Fogelmarck 1994, p. 19
543:Fogelmarck 1994, p. 18
534:Fogelmarck 1994, p. 18
525:Fogelmarck 1994, p. 18
516:Fogelmarck 1994, p. 14
507:Fogelmarck 1994, p. 14
498:Fogelmarck 1994, p. 16
471:Fogelmarck 1994, p. 14
444:Tyska kyrkan, Göteborg
292:Giovanni Giacomo Rossi
288:Chiesa di Gesù e Maria
138:Courtier and architect
59:Göran Josuæ Adelcrantz
31:
842:Age of Liberty people
489:Fogelmarck 1994, p. 9
480:Fogelmarck 1994, p. 9
250:. As a member of the
248:Royal Academy of Arts
192:had been created for
22:
798:at Wikimedia Commons
290:, Rome, depicted in
179:Carl Johan Cronstedt
53:Family and childhood
158:Frederick the Great
71:Castle of Stockholm
777:Natur & Kultur
771:Fogelmarck, Stig:
206:premier architecte
128:Carl Gustaf Tessin
110:court (the future
32:
847:Rococo architects
794:Media related to
756:978-91-7100-771-1
380:Opera house, 1775
859:
793:
762:Fogelmarck, Stig
748:Alexander Roslin
736:
733:
727:
724:
718:
715:
709:
706:
700:
697:
691:
688:
682:
679:
673:
670:
664:
661:
655:
648:
642:
639:A. U. Wertmüller
631:
625:
622:
616:
613:
607:
604:
598:
595:
589:
586:
580:
577:
571:
568:
562:
559:
553:
550:
544:
541:
535:
532:
526:
523:
517:
514:
508:
505:
499:
496:
490:
487:
481:
478:
472:
469:
463:
460:
440:
425:
411:
396:
386:Select buildings
374:
359:
344:
329:
156:, the sister of
152:and his consort
108:Kammarrevisionen
24:Alexander Roslin
867:
866:
862:
861:
860:
858:
857:
856:
802:
801:
786:
744:
739:
734:
730:
725:
721:
716:
712:
707:
703:
698:
694:
689:
685:
680:
676:
671:
667:
662:
658:
649:
645:
632:
628:
623:
619:
614:
610:
605:
601:
596:
592:
587:
583:
578:
574:
569:
565:
560:
556:
551:
547:
542:
538:
533:
529:
524:
520:
515:
511:
506:
502:
497:
493:
488:
484:
479:
475:
470:
466:
461:
457:
453:
446:
441:
432:
426:
417:
412:
403:
397:
388:
381:
375:
366:
360:
351:
348:Sturehov Castle
345:
336:
330:
321:
280:Katarina Parish
276:
232:
177:(see below) by
171:Edmé Bouchardon
140:
123:Katarina Church
99:
83:Katarina Church
55:
17:
12:
11:
5:
865:
855:
854:
849:
844:
839:
834:
829:
824:
819:
814:
800:
799:
785:
784:External links
782:
781:
780:
769:
759:
743:
740:
738:
737:
728:
719:
710:
701:
692:
683:
674:
665:
656:
643:
635:C. F. Sundvall
626:
617:
608:
599:
590:
581:
572:
563:
554:
545:
536:
527:
518:
509:
500:
491:
482:
473:
464:
454:
452:
449:
448:
447:
442:
435:
433:
427:
420:
418:
415:Sturehov Manor
413:
406:
404:
398:
391:
387:
384:
383:
382:
376:
369:
367:
361:
354:
352:
346:
339:
337:
331:
324:
320:
319:Select designs
317:
284:Carlo Rainaldi
275:
272:
256:Age of Liberty
231:
228:
188:The office of
169:(a brother of
139:
136:
98:
95:
85:in Stockholm.
54:
51:
15:
9:
6:
4:
3:
2:
864:
853:
850:
848:
845:
843:
840:
838:
835:
833:
830:
828:
825:
823:
820:
818:
815:
813:
810:
809:
807:
797:
792:
788:
787:
778:
774:
770:
767:
763:
760:
757:
753:
749:
746:
745:
732:
723:
714:
705:
696:
687:
678:
669:
660:
653:
647:
640:
636:
630:
621:
612:
603:
594:
585:
576:
567:
558:
549:
540:
531:
522:
513:
504:
495:
486:
477:
468:
459:
455:
445:
439:
434:
430:
424:
419:
416:
410:
405:
401:
400:Drottningholm
395:
390:
389:
379:
373:
368:
364:
358:
353:
349:
343:
338:
334:
328:
323:
322:
316:
312:
310:
306:
301:
300:överintendent
297:
293:
289:
285:
281:
271:
267:
265:
261:
257:
253:
249:
245:
241:
240:honoris causa
237:
236:överintendent
230:Överintendent
227:
225:
221:
216:
210:
208:
207:
201:
200:
195:
191:
190:överintendent
186:
184:
180:
176:
175:överintendent
172:
168:
163:
159:
155:
154:Louisa Ulrika
151:
150:Adolf Fredrik
147:
146:
135:
133:
132:Carl Hårleman
129:
124:
119:
117:
113:
109:
105:
94:
92:
86:
84:
80:
79:scenographies
76:
72:
68:
64:
60:
50:
48:
47:överintendent
44:
40:
39:Carl Hårleman
36:
29:
25:
21:
772:
765:
747:
742:Bibliography
731:
722:
713:
704:
695:
686:
677:
668:
659:
652:Axel Nyström
646:
629:
620:
611:
602:
593:
584:
575:
566:
557:
548:
539:
530:
521:
512:
503:
494:
485:
476:
467:
458:
313:
299:
295:
277:
268:
243:
239:
235:
233:
211:
204:
199:surintendant
197:
189:
187:
183:hovintendent
182:
174:
143:
141:
120:
112:Kammarrätten
111:
107:
100:
87:
56:
46:
34:
33:
817:1796 deaths
812:1716 births
363:Fredrikshov
806:Categories
641:from 1797.
378:Gustav III
264:Gustav III
244:ex officio
145:hovjunkare
75:new palace
63:Lejonkulan
429:Trångsund
309:porticos
779:, 1994.
431:mansion
402:theatre
350:, 1780s
305:columns
286:in the
104:Uppsala
91:Sigtuna
754:
365:, 1774
335:, 1763
114:, the
43:Sweden
451:Notes
752:ISBN
307:and
260:Caps
252:Hats
294:'s
118:).
808::
764::
758:.)
654:).
226:.
185:.
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Additional terms may apply.
