Portrait of Halldor Gunnløgsson © KAB

Halldor Gunnløgsson was son of the merchant Halldor Johannes Gunnløgsson and the actress Else Sten. He graduated from senior school in 1937 and continued at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, in Copenhagen, from which he graduated in 1942. Among his teachers were Kay Fisker and Steen Eiler Rasmussen. Just after his final examinations during the Second World War he left for Sweden and stayed in the neighbouring country during the years 1942-44.  > NEXT

Biography born in Frederiksberg.   1918   graduated from senior school.   1937   graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, in Copenhagen.   1942   sojourn in Sweden.   1942-44   Lecturer at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, in Copenhagen.   1956   appointed professor in building arts at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, in Copenhagen.   1959   Dean at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, in Copenhagen.   1969   Visiting Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States.   1961-62   died in Rungsted.   1985