Povl Stegmann

Povl Christian Stegmann (1888–1944) was a Danish architect remembered for designing Aarhus University in collaboration with Kay Fisker and C. F. Møller.

Among his fellow students were Kay Fisker, Aage Rafn and Einer Dyggve, all together with Stegmann participants in the development of the Skønvirke style, a blend of the German Jugendstil and the French Art Nouveau with a Danish Historicist dimension.

Stegmann, who had studied contemporary university architecture while travelling in Europe, submitted a proposal together with Kay Fisker and his younger colleague C. F. Møller.

Inspired by Hannes Meyer's trades union college in Bernau near Berlin, it consisted of a structure divided into several small departments, carefully adapted to the building site with the assistance of the landscape architect C.Th.

[3] Under the German occupation in November 1944, Stegmann was shot dead outside his home in Aalborg, apparently in return for the activities of the resistance movement.