Uno Ullberg, Viipuri Art Museum, Vyborg 1930. 'The first architect to introduce the contemporary European architectural tendencies in Viborg was Uno Ullberg (born 1879 in Viipuri, died 1944 in Helsinki), a graduate of the Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia. In his function as Viborg’s main architect during the interwar-period, Ullberg designed a number of public buildings; among them such outstanding works as the Viipuri Art Museum and Drawing School, the Municipal Pawn Office (Viipuri Panttilaitos Oy) and the Provincial Archives Building. The Municipal Pawn office (built 1931) refers with its white-stuccoed facades and its remarkable extremly simplified bands of windows to the architectural principles of the Bauhaus. The Viipuri Art Museum and Drawing School (1930) reveals some reductiv Classicism elements such as the twin-row colonnade of pillars supporting an architrave with half-oculi. This architectural masterpiece is considered to be one of the signal works of the Nordic Classicism.' Heritage Protection http://heritage-protection.com/en/Projects/Viborg/Uno_Ullberg 'The Hermitage-Vyborg center is located in the historical part of Vyborg in a building of 1930, designed by the architect Uno Verner Ulberg (1879-1944) to house the Art Museum and the Art School. The decision to open the Hermitage-Vyborg center there marked the rebirth of the Constructivist architecture monument and the regain of its initial museum role.' The State Hermitage Museum. Photographer Ninara. Flickr
