Gudmund Hoel

{{Short description|Norwegian architect (1877–1956)}}

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Gudmund Hoel (25 September 1877 – 7 September 1956) was a Norwegian architect. He is regarded as the second-most influential railway architect in Norway, after Paul Due.{{cite web|url= https://nkl.snl.no/Gudmund_Hoel|title= Gudmund Hoel|publisher = Norsk kunstnerleksikon|author= Ingvild Pharo

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Biography

He was born in Kragerø, Norway. Hoel graduated from Kristiania Tekniske Skole (today Oslo University College) in 1896. For six years he had various assistant jobs at architecture firms in Norway and Germany. From 1903-04, he conducted study trips to the United States. In 1904, he started working for Holger Sinding-Larsen, and in 1910 he established his own firm.{{cite web|url= https://snl.no/Gudmund_Hoel |title= Gudmund Hoel|publisher= Store norske leksikon |author= Bjørn Cappelen|accessdate= September 1, 2017}}

In 1913, he was appointed director of the newly established NSB Arkitektkontor, an in-house division of the Norwegian State Railways. He remained director there until he retired in 1947. His early works were mostly in historicism, but from the 1920s he started designing in neoclassicism.{{cite web|url= https://lokalhistoriewiki.no/index.php/NSB_Arkitektkontor |title= NSB Arkitektkontor

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Selected works

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  • {{cite book |title=Neste stasjon |last=Hartmann |first=Eivind |last2=Mangset |first2=Øistein |last3=Reisegg |first3=Øyvind |publisher=Gyldendal Norsk Forlag |year=1997 |language=Norwegian |isbn=82-05-25294-7 |page=78}}

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Category:Architects from Oslo

Category:Norwegian State Railways (1883–1996) people

Category:People from Kragerø

Category:1877 births

Category:1956 deaths

Category:Norwegian railway architects