Christian Fürst

[1] Christian Fürst was a Norwegian architect, born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway on April 15, 1860, and died on 8 January in 1910.

During this period Norway was poverty-stricken and undergoing much turmoil in relation to territory and independence lost to Denmark.

It was common for Norwegian scholars to go and study in major cities like Berlin to escape the impoverished areas of Norway.

This style of architecture arose primarily in the Middle Ages during the Renaissance era and was symbolically representative of Christianity.

Fürst, however, started his career in architecture about a century after the renaissance had ended, and he had the idea of incorporating the gothic style into buildings other than churches.

Tostrupgården, a monumental business property on Karl Johans Gate in Oslo, was built 1896–1898 in a cooperation with Waldemar Hansteen and Torolf Prytz.