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ID: 500002617
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500002617
 
Record Type: Person
Aalto, Alvar (Finnish architect and designer, 1898-1976)

Note: Aalto, famous for his bent plywood furniture, began designing furniture in the early 1930s. His furniture, like his architecture, reveals his attention to simple practical needs, a proclivity for linear elegance, and an innate understanding of natural forms and textures. His famous library at Viipuri (ca. 1927) is in the International Style. He also designed some significant glass bowls in the 1930s that are among the earliest examples of 'free form' in a utilitarian object.

Names:
Aalto, Alvar (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
Aalto, Alvar (Dutch-P,NA)
Alvar Aalto (V,display)
Aalto, Hugo Alvar Henrik (V)
Āruto, Aruvā (U)
אלטו, אלוור (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
Finnish (preferred)
Scandinavian

Roles:
artist (preferred)
decorative artist
designer
furniture designer
glass designer
architect

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Kuortane (Etelä-Pohjanmaa, Finland) (inhabited place)
Died:  Helsinki (Uusimaa, Finland) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
assisted by ....  Revell, Viljo  1933-1934
....................  (Finnish architect, 1910-1964) [500018880]
collaborated with ....  Aalto, Aino  
................................  (Finnish architect, designer, 1894-1949) [500024110]
employee was ....  Ervi, Aarne  
......................  (Finnish architect, 1910-1977) [500063829]
employee was ....  Gullichsen, Kristian  
......................  (Finnish architect, born 1932) [500083757]
related to ....  Artek  
..................  (Finnish company, contemporary) [500261915]
spouse of ....  Aalto, Elissa  from 1952
................  (Finnish architect, 1922-1994) [500002611]
student of ....  Lindgren, Armas  
..................  (Finnish architect and designer, 1874-1929) [500004960]
teacher of ....  Blaser, Werner  
..................  (Swiss architect and author, born 1924) [500030955]
worked with ....  Baruël, Jean Jacques  
....................  (Danish architect, born 1923) [500108109]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Aalto, Alvar (I)

Biographies:
(Finnish architect and designer, 1898-1976) ..... [BHA Preferred]
(Finnish architect, 1898-1976) ..... [AVERY]
(Finnish architect, 1898-1976) ..... [AVERY]
(Finnish architect) ..... [AVERY]
(Finnish architect, 1898-1976) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, 1898-1976) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(Finnish artist, 1898-1976) ..... [MoMA]
(Finnish designer, 1898-1976) ..... [IMJ]
(Finnish architect, 1898-1976) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
אלטו, אלוור ........ [IMJ]
......................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
Aalto, Alvar ........ [AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred]
..........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
..........................  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1963-)
..........................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..........................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..........................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
..........................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79018877
..........................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 124304
Aalto, Hugo Alvar Henrik ........ [AVERY, GRL, Grove Art, VP]
................................................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
................................................  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1963-)
................................................  Fleming, Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts (1989) 9
................................................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
................................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79018877
Alvar Aalto ........ [GRISC, MoMA, VP]
........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
........................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
Āruto, Aruvā ........ [GRL]
.........................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79018877

Subject: ........ [AVERY, BHA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, Grove Art, IMJ, MoMA, RKD, VP]
....................  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1963-)
....................  Avery Obituary Index [n.d.] 1980
....................  Dictionary of Scandinavian Biography (1976)
....................  Dictionnaire universel de l'art (1967-1968)
....................  Fleming, Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts (1989) 9-10; 9
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n79018877
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 28 July 2003
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................  LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n79018877
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) NAFL7999084
....................  NY Times obit.
....................  Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Art (1981)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 124304
....................  Vollmer, Künstler-Lexikon 20. Jahrhunderts (1953-62)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q82840
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, VP]
.......... Fleming, Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts (1989) 9-10
.......... LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
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