Carl Gustav Swensson

Carl Gustav Swensson (also spelled Svensson; 15 June 1861 – 13 April 1910) was a Swedish landscape architect.

Swensson was born in Jönköping and educated by his father, Anders Gustaf Swensson. In 1880 or 1881 he moved to Würzburg, Germany, where he worked until 1887 as an assistant of the city gardener Jöns Persson Lindahl. In 1887 he moved to Vienna, the capital of Austria. From 1891 he worked in Rüschlikon, Switzerland, and then again in Vienna. After 1900, he was primarily designing the parks in the spa town Mariánské Lázně. Since 1906, he worked in the territory of the nowadays Slovenia for the family Pongratz. He designed the park around the Zora Villa in Bled and of Šenek Mansion in Polzela. He also designed the park of Maruševec Mansion in Varaždin.[1]

Swensson received numerous prizes for his work.[1] In 2000, a memorial plaque was unveiled to him in Bled.[2]

References
  1. Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950 (in German). 14. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 2012. p. 78. ISBN 978-3-7001-3213-4.
  2. "Na Bledu odkkrili spominsko obeležje švedskemu krajinskemu arhitektu" [A Memorial To a Swedish Landscape Architect Unveiled in Bled] (in Slovenian). Slovenian Press Agency. 25 November 2000.



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