Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd
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Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd (born June 4, 1934 in Stockholm ; † May 3, 2016 in Landskrona ) was a Swedish painter and sculptor .
Life
Reuterswärd was born in Stockholm in 1934. In 1952 he studied in Fernand Léger's Paris studio . In the 1960s he took part in numerous exhibitions and events at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. From 1965 to 1969 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in the Swedish capital. Around the same time, he began his first experiments with laser technology and holography , which he later incorporated into his work as part of the Kilroy Project . In 1974 he was visiting professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in Minneapolis . From 1977 he portrayed numerous personalities with whom he was friends, including Salvador Dalí , Francis Bacon and Jean-Paul Sartre . After a stroke in 1989, his right hand was paralyzed and he retrained to the left.
Probably his best-known work is the sculpture of a revolver with a knotted barrel, which is called Non Violence . Reuterswärd was inspired for this idea after the death of his friend John Lennon . The bronze sculpture is currently in 16 locations worldwide. The first three versions can be admired in front of the UN headquarters in New York , in Malmö , Sweden, and in Luxembourg . There are other examples in Berlin , Caen , Gothenburg , Marl and Stockholm .
There were other exhibitions of his works at the Moderna Museet , the Center Pompidou in Paris and the Sprengel Museum in Hanover .
On the occasion of the exhibition of a donation of more than 300 graphics and drawings from his entire oeuvre to the Kunstmuseum Bayreuth , he also realized a non-violence sculpture there, which has been on the market square (Maximilianstrasse) since April 3, 2011. In 2013 he donated a large number of drawings, paintings and sculptures to the Sprengel Museum Hannover, which now houses the most important collection of his art.
Literature (selection)
- Marina von Assel, Norbert Nobis: Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd: 274 drawings and graphics. A gift from the artist to the Bayreuth Art Museum . Bayreuth 2011, ISBN 978-3-935880-22-0 .
- Norbert Nobis: Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd: The graphic work. Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover 1993, ISBN 978-3-89169-074-1 .
- Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd. Style is Fraud or Collected Works. Sprengel Museum Hannover, May 4 to June 22, 1986 . 1986, ISBN 978-3-89169-031-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd in the catalog of the German National Library
- "Non-Violence" - a symbol of non-violence Article on wort.lu
- Biography in the MOMA database
- Profile at artfacts.net
- Rouiller Jacques Dominique: Reuterswärd, Carl Fredrik. In: Sikart
Individual evidence
- ^ Artist behind Luxembourg's knotted gun sculpture dies
- ↑ Homepage of the Art Museum Bayreuth, accessed on August 15, 2012 ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| SURNAME | Reuterswärd, Carl Fredrik |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm , Sweden |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 2016 |
| Place of death | Landskrona , Sweden |