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Jacobsen, Holger
(b Odense, 30 Oct 1876; d Copenhagen, 27 March 1960). Danish architect. He studied at the Arkitektskole of the Kunstakademi in Copenhagen (1898–1905). After he left he won the competition of 1905 for Bispebjerg Crematorium (executed 1905–7, extended 1919 and 1927). In 1907 he built the new church at Tåstrup. Jacobsen adopted a personal historicism dominated by mannered classicistic motifs that accorded with such contemporary trends as Art Nouveau and neo-classicism. He was among the first to rediscover C. F. Hansen’s architecture and shared the art historian Vilhelm Wanscher’s enthusiasm for Michelangelo and the grand Italian style. In 1914 he rebuilt the Circus building in Copenhagen. After Hack Kampmann’s death, working with Aage Rafn he took over the detailed planning and building of the Police Headquarters (1920–24), which, like the crematorium and the Circus building, was based on the Pantheon in Rome.
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