Eric Grate

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Erik Grate with Dyre Vaa (left) and Paul Hedqvist (right) on a study trip to Athens, 1924.
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Eric Gustaf Grate (born August 14, 1896 in Stockholm , † August 3, 1983 in Solna ) was a Swedish sculptor , painter and graphic artist .

Life

Eric Grate was the son of the engineer Georg Erikson and his wife Hilma, nee Bredberg. He married Astri Nordgren in 1922, from whose connection the art historian Pontus Grate (1922–2018) emerged. His second wife was Marianne Peyron in 1937, his third marriage was in 1976 with Ann-Margret Kirsebom, b. Bergendahl (1920–2014) a.

In 1916 Grate was a student at the Tekniska Skolan Art School in Stockholm. From 1917 to 1920 he studied at the Kungliga Konsthögskolan art academy there . In 1922 and 1923, study trips took him to Germany, particularly to Munich . In 1923 and 1924 he toured Italy and Greece. In 1924 he came to Paris , where he lived until 1934. Between 1931 and 1932 he carried out public contracts there, and in 1934 he returned to Sweden.

The art academy in Stockholm appointed him professor of sculpture from 1941 to 1951. From 1948 to 1951, Grate was part of the editorial team of the Swedish cultural magazine Prisma, together with Stig Dagerman , Hjalmar Gullberg , Ingemar Hedonius , Paul Hedqvist , Erik Lindegren , Egon Möller-Nielsen , Endre Nemes , Ragnar Sandberg and Alf Sjöberg .

In 1968 Grate moved to Solna, where he died in 1983. He was laid to rest in the Ulriksdal cemetery.

Exhibitions and prizes

In 1929 he accepted an invitation from the Swedish Art Association for Public Art Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening and exhibited his work in the Liljevalchs Kunsthalle ( Liljevalchs Konsthall ) in Stockholm. In 1930 he took part in the international exhibition of post-cubist art by Otto Carlsund (from the artist group Art concret ) in Stockholm. From 1930 to 1934 he showed his work in a series of exhibitions in Brussels and Paris, including with representatives of the École de Paris .

Commissioned by the curator of the Swedish National Museum Ragnar Hoppe in Stockholm, he arranged an exhibition of post-cubic and surrealist art there in 1932 . The exhibition shows works by Hans Arp , Georges Braque , Massimo Campigli , Otto Carlsund, Marc Chagall , Giorgio de Chirico , Max Ernst , Otto Rost , Wassily Kandinsky , Paul Klee , Fernand Léger , Joan Miró , Erik Olson , Francis Picabia and Pablo Picasso . The event came under criticism in Sweden with its content of modern art as a constituency scandal .

In 1934 he held solo exhibitions in Örebro , Karlstad and the Färg och Form gallery in Stockholm . In 1937 he took part in the Paris World Exhibition . In 1945 he exhibited together with the Finnish artist Hugo Zuhr in the Konsthallen in Gothenburg, in 1946 he was involved in an exhibition of Swedish art in London . In 1948 he exhibited together with Otte Sköld at the Västerbotten Art Association .

In 1952 he showed work at the Biennale di Venezia . In 1954 he had a solo exhibition in the Swedish-French art gallery in Stockholm; followed by a solo exhibition in the Konsthallen in Gothenburg in 1955. He also took part in the exhibition of the Nordic Art Association in Rome . In 1959 he took part in the Antwerp Biennale and a Scandinavian exhibition in Lima , Peru.

In 1960 he had exhibitions in the Kunsthalle Lund , the Norrköping Museum and the Kunstneernes Hus in Oslo . That year he was awarded the Sergelpriset (Sergel Prize). In 1963 he had solo exhibitions at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris (at the invitation of France) and at the Musée d'Ixelles in Brussels and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp . In 1964 he showed works in the Belgian Musée St. Pierre in Ghent , in Sweden he was present with his work at a retrospective exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm and other exhibitions in Skövde and Eslöv . In 1967 he sent events to Konstnärshuset and Thielska Galleriet in Stockholm and again to Norrköpings Museum.

Together with Endre Nemes , he showed exhibits in Prague (Národní Gallery), Bratislava and Ostrava in 1971 . In the same year he took part in the NUNSKU exhibition of Swedish art in Dakar , Senegal. The Cobra Gallery in Gothenburg also showed works by Grate this year. In 1976 a retrospective exhibition was held at Liljevalchs Konsthall in Stockholm.

In 1977 he took part in the exhibition Fantasys Liberation at the Västerås Art Museum, u. a. together with Endre Nemes, Carl-Otto Hultén , Max Walter Svanberg , Gösta Kriland and members of the Halmstad Group. The exhibition was later shown in the Eskilstuna Museum, the Norrköping Museum and the Halland Museum in Halmstad .

In 1993 the Eric Grates Park was created, a sculpture park at Centralvägen 15 in Solna. Here are Grates bronze sculptures Oberon , Nike de Sant Andria and Sparvguden .

Works (selection)

During his time in Paris, Grate took a liking to surrealism in Paris . Until the 1950s he worked mainly in the styles of classical art and post-cubism . His works had titles such as:

  • Bergslagsurnan , Majorna in Gothenburg
  • Faunfigur from 1923, Hotel Liseberg, Kryddgården, Heden, Gothenburg
  • Statyer på Norra Kungstornet from 1925, Kungsgatan in Stockholm
  • Fontän med dryad from 1932, Örebro Concert Hall
  • Relief above the entrance to the Konsthallen from 1936, Falun
  • Folkvisan from 1937, Bromma Gymnasium in Stockholm, in the Liseberg amusement park in Gothenburg and in the Bäckängsgymnasiet in Borås
  • Årstiderna , 1937–1941, Rosenbad , Stockholm
  • Folket and technology
  • Part of a relief made of chamotte from 1937, wall decoration for the Paris World Exhibition 1937 , Laufhof Runö, Åkersberga
  • De fyra vindarna , 1937–1941, four reliefs on Gothenburg City Hall
  • Pulpit of the Sankt Nikolai kyrka in Örebro, 1939
  • Humlan from 1939, outside the Örebro Läns Museum
  • Baths and Nereid from 1943, two terracotta reliefs in the bath house in Trelleborg
  • Sommaren (also Ung man ) from 1944, granite sculpture, 224 cm high, Utmarksgatan, Lundby , Gothenburg
  • Våren from 1944, bronze, 125 cm high, Kaggeledstorget in Härlanda, Gothenburg and in the Alingsås Museum Park
  • Anadyomene , 1947-1952, Hudiksvall
  • Förvandlingarnas brunn , 1943–1955, granite, Maraboupark in Sundbyberg
  • Navigare necesse est from 1953, bronze, Rödabergsskolan, Stockholm
  • Liggande kvinna , around 1954, bronze fountain, Torget, Västertorp, Stockholm
  • Trädet , around 1954, bronze fountain, Torget, Västertorp, Stockholm
  • Två dansande from 1955, Byttorpskolan in Borås
  • Ritual in 1959, granite, in the garden of Olle Olsson Hagalund-museet
  • Vindarnas grotta , 1960–1971, on Fiskartorget in front of Västerå City Hall
  • Monument över Yxman from 1967, bronze, 3.5 meters high, Rålambshovsparken near Kungsholmen in Stockholm. Replicas in smaller formats are available from Blockhusudden, Djurgården in Stockholm and the European Parliament in Strasbourg
  • Gudinna vid hyperboreiskt hav , 1949–1956, four meter long granite fountain, Rådhustorget in Gävle
  • Det entomologiska kvinnorovet , 1956–1958, bronze, Karolinska Institute in Solna
  • Snäckfågel , 1960–1961, bronze, 255 cm high, in front of the Hotel Opalen in Gothenburg and at Stora Torg in Eslöv
  • Silvatica , bronze, esplanade in Nässjö
  • Nike från Sant Andria , 1967–1968, bronze, 206 cm high, Södra Promenaden, in front of the city library in Norrköping
  • Vindarnas grotta , 1960–1971, Fiskartorget in Västerås
  • Apoteus till Norrland , 1970–1971, relief made of red sandstone, Karlavägen 45 in Stockholm
  • Sparvguden , 1972–1973, Eric Grates Park, Solna Town Hall
  • Hjärtblad from 1974, Landstingshuset in Kristianstad
  • Urnkvinna Daphne , 1956-1960, Diagnostic Center Universitetssjukhuset Mas (UMAS), Malmö

  • Tre fåvitska virgin in Mästarnas Park in Hällefors

  • Snäckfågel , Stora Torg in Eslöv

  • Folkvisan , Bromma High School in Stockholm

  • Sculpture in the Konstmuseum Norrköping

  • Clown på klot , Gustavslundsvägen 34, Alviks Torg in Bromma, Stockholm

  • Fountain in the Örebro Concert Hall

  • Gudinna vid hyperboreiskt hav in front of the Gävle town hall

  • Yxmannen , Rekarneskolan in Eskilstuna

literature

  • Pontus Burrs: Under grekisk heaven - Eric Burrs och antique . Kristianstad 2005, ISBN 9-17203-722-9 .
  • Pontus Grate, Ragnar von Holten: Eric Grate . Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening No. 87, Uddevalla 1978.
  • Ragnar von Holten: Surrealisms i svensk konst . Carlssons Bokförlag, Stockholm 1969.
  • Ragnar von Holten, Sven Sandström: Eric Grate sculpture . Kalejdoskop förlag, Malmö 1990, ISBN 9-17936-042-4 .
  • En bok om Eric Grate . Allhelms, Malmö 1963.

Web links

Commons : Eric Grate  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homage to Pontus Grate. In: Institut suédois, Paris 2018.
  2. ↑ Sveriges dödbok 1901-2009 . Version 5.0, Sveriges släktforskarförbund, Solna 2010, ISBN 978-9-18767-659-8 .
  3. ^ Ann-Margret Grate om livet efter diagnosen . ( Memento from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Lidingö stad. Hemtjänstbladet No. 8, 2012.
  4. ↑ Eric Gustaf Grate. In: finngraven.se.
  5. ↑ Eric Grate: socharské dílo; Endre Nemes: nové obrazy. In: Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie .
  6. ↑ Eric Grate. In: Swedish National Museum .
  7. ↑ Humlan . In: Örebro Läns Museum
personal data
SURNAME Grate, Eric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grate, Eric Gustaf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish sculptor, painter and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH 3rd August 1983
Place of death Solna