Education
Born in Aarhus, Stegmann apprenticed as a mason before attending Aarhus Technical School where he matriculated in 1908.
Born in Aarhus, Stegmann apprenticed as a mason before attending Aarhus Technical School where he matriculated in 1908.
His name is included in the Danish Culture Canon. He went on to study architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under Anton Rosen and Hack Kampmann from 1909 to 1919. 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"s first major assignment was the Aarhus housing development in Stadion Allé (1930).
The same year a competition was launched for a university in Aarhus. 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.
Sørensen. Stegmann is also remembered for his analysis of the detached one-family home (1933) which became compulsory reading for practicing architects.
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.