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Up for sale a RARE! "Danish Architect" Kay Fisker Hand Signed 3.25X5.75 Card.
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Kay Otto Fisker, Hon. FAIA (14 February 1893 – 21 June 1965) was a Danish architect, designer and educator. He is mostly
known for his many housing projects, mainly in the Copenhagen area, and is considered a leading exponent
of Danish Functionalism.
Kay Fisker was born on 14 February 1893 in the Frederiksberg, Copenhagen. He entered the Royal Danish Academy of
Fine Arts in 1909 and while there worked at the offices of
leading Scandinavian architects such as Anthon Rosen, Sigurd
Lewerentz, Gunnar Asplund and Hack Kampmann parallel to his studies. In 1915, in
collaboration with Aage Rafn, he won a competition to design the railway
stations along the Almindingen-Gudhjem railway on the Danish island of Bornholm. After
graduating, his career as a practising architect was dominated by numerous
influential residential projects. Vestersøhus was built from 1935 to 1939 by
Fisker and C. F. Møller. It instantly
became a model in Denmark for the balcony and bay window blocks of the time. A
key building in his production was Århus to be one of the most important examples of Danish Functionalism,
which he designed in collaboration with Povl Stegmann and later C. F. Møller, and with Carl Theodor Marius Sørensen. Kay Fisker also designed the
Danish Academy in Rome. From
1936 to 1963 Fisker was a professor at the Royal Academy and as teacher of the
school's class on housing he was known as an inspiring lecturer with great
influence on Danish housing culture. From 1951 to 1957 he was a visiting
professor at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
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