Frits Schlegel

Frits Schlegel (4 May 1896 - 5 March 1965) was a Functionalist Danish architect active during the transition from traditional craftsmanship to industrialized construction methods in the building industry.

[1] His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

He completed an apprenticeship as a mason in 1915 and studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1916 to 1923, winning the small gold medal in 1924 (for a stadium design) and the large gold medal in 1927 (for a university in Aarhus).

[4] His early works show inspiration from the French architect Auguste Perret.

Particularly in the 1930s, Schlegel also designed a number of furniture lines with inspiration from the Bauhaus movement.