Leif Grung was educated in Stockholm where he studied architecture at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and graduated in 1920.

[3] Leif Grung was a versatile architect marked by distinctive artistic nerve.

He was open to international ideas and was inspired by both the Bauhaus school and by Frank Lloyd Wright.

He also committed himself to the self-builder movement, to modernizing onshore communications and expanding the road system surrounding Bergen.

These first witnesses confirmed that during World War II, Grung had been an intermediary for the escape route across the North Sea to Great Britain and had sabotaged German building plans.