Sweden Architecture

Sweden Architecture

It is in 1930 that the Sweden appears almost suddenly with an extraordinary maturity on the scenes of international architecture. In fact, in that year the Stockholm exhibition opens, where G. Asplund (1885-1940) “who until then had preferred a refined classicism, as Pevsner wrote, found the way to a weightless and transparent style… [based on […]

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Sweden Literature

Sweden Literature

The rapid socio-economic transformation of Sweden in the last twenty years is accompanied by a literature that has characters very similar to those of contemporary European and American literature. It can be said that since 1920 two fundamental tendencies have dominated: one realistic-social can ideally be traced back to the ideology of 80’s naturalism, the […]

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Sweden Literature - Naturalism (1880 - 1890)

Sweden Literature – Naturalism (1880 – 1890) and the ” Nordic Renaissance ” (1890-1910)

It was within this situation in spirituality and in art that the naturalist revolution broke out towards the 80s. Which, referring to that return to nature from which romanticism was born and to that need for reality into which romanticism had blossomed, opposed any academic formalism and any intellectual idealism, with aggressive violence “the brutality […]

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Sweden Music

Sweden Music

An important phase of renewal in the Swedish music of the twentieth century opens during the 1940s, above all thanks to the activity of H. Rosenberg (1892-1985), composer who managed to graft the influence of the main European movements, especially Expressionism. A pupil of W. Stenhammar (1871-1927), Rosenberg was the author of a vast musical […]

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Sweden Education

Sweden Politics and Law

Sweden is a country in Northern Europe, in the east of the Scandinavian Peninsula with (2018) 10.2 million residents; The capital is Stockholm. Law There are three stages in the structure of the courts, both in general courts and in administrative jurisdiction. The first instance of the general courts are the district courts (Tingsrätter), appeals […]

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