Balthazar Lange
Illustration — Balthazar Lange • Illustration — Uranienborg Church, 1880 • Illustration — Holmenkollen Park Hotel, 1894 • Illustration — Ila school, 1916 Balthazar Conrad Lange (25 March 1854 - 13 September 1937) was a Norwegian architect.
Also recorded as Balthazar Conrad Lange
Balthazar Lange
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- Born
- 1854 · Asker.
- Died
- 1937 · Oslo.
- Nationality
- Norway
- Occupation
- architect
- Education
- Leibniz University Hannover
- Known for
- Uranienborg Church · Porsgrunn station
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
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Illustration — Balthazar Lange • Illustration — Uranienborg Church, 1880 • Illustration — Holmenkollen Park Hotel, 1894 • Illustration — Ila school, 1916 Balthazar Conrad Lange (25 March 1854 - 13 September 1937) was a Norwegian architect.
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Balthazar Lange (1854–1937) was a Norwegian architect. Born in Asker, the architect died in Oslo.
Balthazar Lange studied at Leibniz University Hannover. The architect lived in Oslo.
Works include Porsgrunn station and Uranienborg Church. Balthazar Lange received Knight of the Legion of Honour.
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He was born in Asker as a son of customs treasurer and lieutenant colonel Christopher Andreas Lange (1808–1888) and Anne Birgithe Falsen. He was a maternal grandson of founding father Christian Magnus Falsen, grandnephew of Alexander Lange, first cousin of naval officer Christian Magnus Falsen and Conrad Falsen and first cousin once removed of Christian Christoph Andreas Lange and Jacob Otto Lange. In 1881 in Arendal he married Elise Kløcker (1857–1934). The couple had one daughter and five sons, although not all survived past infancy. His sister Elisabeth Lange married Alfred Sinding-Larsen and had the children Christian Magnus Falsen Sinding-Larsen, Birger Fredrik Sinding-Larsen, Holger Sinding-Larsen and Kristofer Sinding-Larsen.
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He first made his mark while working for the Norwegian State Railways from 1878 to 1881. He mainly designed station buildings in Østfold and Vestfold, including Skoppum, Stokke, Sandefjord, and Porsgrunn. He then returned to Kristiania, having already drawn Uranienborg Church in 1880. In 1894, he gained fame for the dragon style sanatorium at Holmenkollen sanatorium (today known as Holmenkollen Park Hotel). As city architect from 1898 to 1920, he also drew several schools.
Front page of the first issue of the Norwegian architecture journal Byggekunst (Architecture). Probably designed by the architect Balthazar Lange
antagelig Balthazar Lange · NALs bibliotek
Balthazar Lange (1854–1937). Bilde gjengitt i «Norske arkitekter før 1914», s. 28.
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1854
Balthazar Lange was born on 25 March 1854.
1937
Balthazar Lange died on 13 September 1937.
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