Carl Curman

Carl Peter Curman (8 March 1833 in Sjögestad – 19 October 1913 in Stockholm) was a Swedish physician and a prominent balneologist.

Anders Retzius, who was Curman's teacher at the Institute, convinced him to take a position as physician at a bath resort outside Lysekil, established by an old sea captain J. G. Mollén, who had acquired some medical knowledge during his time at sea.

Curman made the plans for the bath house and designed a façade modelled on the Ca' Vendramin Calergi in Venice.

During the last two decades of the 19th century, the salons there, hosted by him and his wife Calla, née Lundström, were popular among the artistic and intellectual circles of the capital.

Curman's photography consisted prominently of cyanotypes depicting everyday Swedish life.