Background
Lidvall was born in Saint St. Petersburg into a family of Swedes.
Lidvall was born in Saint St. Petersburg into a family of Swedes.
In 1882 he attended elementary school at the Swedish Church of Saint Catherine, and then the second St. Petersburg Technical High School in 1888. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1896 with the title "Artist-Architect".
Foreign two years he worked in Baron Stieglitz"s School of Technical Drawing. From 1890 to 1896 Lidvall was a student in the architectural department of the Saint St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, studying (1894–1896) in the workshop of the eminent architect Leon Benois. In 1918, ruined by the revolution, he was forced to emigrate to his family in Stockholm, ending the most fruitful period of his work which is connected with Saint St. Petersburg, although he designed several buildings in Stockholm.
In Stockholm, Lidvall worked as an architect.
He mainly constructed apartment buildings, but also the head office for Shell in Stockholm. He died in 1945 and is buried in Stockholm in Djursholm Cemetery.
From 1909 he was a member of the Academy of Architecture, an arm of the Imperial Academy of Arts.