Name
Lidval, Fyodor Ivanovich

Variant name
Lidvall, Johan Fredrik

Gender
Male

Birth
June 1, 1870 Saint Petersburg

Death
1945 Stockholm

Descriptive Note

Fyodor Lidval was a Russian-Swedish architect. He studied under Leon Benois at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts from 1890 to 1896. He became a Professor of architecture in 1909. He worked primarily in St. Petersburg, but he moved to Sweden after the Revolution of 1917. Between 1910-1920, his designs expressed a transition from Art Nouveau to Neoclassicism. He used decorative motifs of the Renaissance and, to a lesser extent, of Russian classicism, freely transforming them, but preserving the graphic quality and lightness of late Art Nouveau architectural details (for example, the Azov-Don Bank, now the Central Telephone Exchange, 1907–09; the Astoriia Hotel, 1910–14; and the former Nobel house on Karl Marx Street, between 1910 and 1915).

His designs influenced the style of the Pavilion of Russia at the 1911 Exposition in Turin.

Roles
Influencers

Related Built Environment Objects

• Pavilion of Russia