Up for auction 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 University (1932–43),

considered 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.