Fritz Eckert, Fritz Herman Vilhelm Eckert in full, was a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 architect

Architect

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, born 25 April 1852 in Stockholm

Stockholm

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, he died in 1920. Eckert attended the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts

Royal Swedish Academy of Arts

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 from 1871-1878 and spent 1879 travelling abroad. He was employed as an architect by Överintendentsämbetet (the Swedish public construction service) in 1878 and was made a curator of this service in 1904. From 1880 he lectured at the Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

-based School of Engineering

Konstfack

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Eckert designed Professor Curman's villa on Stockholm's Floragatan (1880), the Royal Stables of Stockholm (1895), Antuna Gård mansion in Upplands Väsby

Upplands Väsby

Upplands Väsby is a bimunicipal locality and the seat of Upplands Väsby Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 35,977 inhabitants in 2005.-Overview:...

, the YWCA

YWCA

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 building in Stockholm (designed in 1905) and the new church in Krokek

Krokek

Krokek is a locality situated in Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 4,154 inhabitants in 2005....

 in Östergötland County

Östergötland County

Östergötland County is a county or län in southeastern Sweden. It borders the counties of Kalmar to the southeast, Jönköping to the southwest, Västra Götaland to the west, Örebro to the northwest, Södermanland to the northeast, and the Baltic Sea to the east.Östergötland County has a population of...

 (1895-1896), as well as contributing to numerous church restorations

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