Gottfrid Larsson

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Gottfrid Larsson

Julius Gottfrid Andreas Larsson (born November 21, 1875 in Vallerstad near Skänninge , Östergötland , Sweden ; † December 24, 1947 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish sculptor .

Life

Larsson's father was the farmer Anders Larsson.

At the age of 14 Larrson came to Norrköping in Östergötland, where he studied wood carving and worked as a wood carver at the technical evening school from 1889 to 1895. He moved to Stockholm in 1895 and studied there until 1899 at the Tekniska Skolan University of Technology , the predecessor of the Konstfack Art School . In 1900 he received a travel grant from the Svenska Slöjdföreningen (Swedish Association for Craft Art) and the Kommerskollegium (state authority for foreign trade), after which he was able to continue his studies at the Académie Colarossi in Paris from 1900 to 1902 .

In 1905 he took part in the artistic design of the Art Nouveau building of the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm ( Swedish Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern , or Dramaten for short ). Here he worked mainly with the sculptor Carl Milles . Larsson then continued his studies in Munich from 1905 to 1906 and spent the years 1906 to 1907 in Italy , particularly in Florence .

With a large scholarship from the Kungliga Konsthögskolan Stockholm ( Royal Academy of Liberal Arts Stockholm ) he continued his studies in France, where he lived mainly in Paris from 1908 to 1913, but also visited England, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands . During his time in Paris he befriended other Swedish artists such as Erik Tryggelin (1878–1962) and David Wallin (1876–1957). At the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Artes, the Parisian Éditeur d'art (publisher or editor of art articles) Arthur Goldscheider showed a bacchant statuette with an inkwell designed by Larsson and the Le Vice fuyant la lumière lighting fixture made of plaster of paris. In 1911 Larrson married the Norwegian Karen Sofie Waaler in Paris.

Gottfrid Larsson and Edward Berggren in their art school, Stockholm 1924.

In 1913 Larsson returned to Stockholm. In 1920 he founded a painting school here together with his fellow art college student and friend, the painter and graphic artist Edward Berggren (1876–1961).

Gottfrid Larsson took part in numerous exhibitions, including 1908 in Saint Petersburg , 1909 in Munich, 1915 in San Francisco and 1916 in Stockholm. In 1935 Gottfrid Larsson exhibited together with the Swedish artist and designer Arthur Percy (1886–1976) at Konstnärshuset in Stockholm .

Gottfrid Larsson died in Stockholm on Christmas Eve 1947. He was laid to rest in the cemetery of the church in Vallerstad.

The Gottfrid Larsson Gården sculpture museum is located in Vadstena . After Gottfrid Larsson's death in 1947, his wife Karen bought the former Möllergården , named it after her husband and donated it to the municipality of Vadstena in 1953, including the collection of 125 sculptures. In 1979 the garden was opened to the public.

Works (selection)

  • Linderoth's clock on Klara Södra kyrkogata street in Stockholm.

  • Worker from 1917, Stockholm.

  • Sower in the cemetery of Vallerstad, Östergötland.

  • Bust of Oscar Montelius in the town hall of Skänninge, Östergötland.

  • Mörkret flyr ljuset ( Darkness flees from light ), Paris 1902
  • Kyssen ( The Kiss ), bronze
  • Toskanska ( woman from Tuscany ), marble
  • Carl Robert Lamm and his wife Dora Lamm , portrait busts, marble
  • Gammal florentinare ( Old Man from Florence ), marble
  • Florentinskt original ( Florence Character ), granite
  • Brutal Kraft ( Brutal Kraft ), bust, bronze
  • Vid källan ( For Spring ), marble
  • Min moder ( my mother ), marble
  • Oscar Montelius , bust, black granite
  • Valsverksarbetare ( workers in the rolling mill ), 1909. Södra folkparken, Stockholm since 1924
  • Man och kvinna ( man and woman ), 1920
  • Sjöjungfru och sjöhästar ( Mermaid with Sea Horses ), 1920. Fountain in Järnvägsparken in Linköping
  • Såningsmannen ( The Sower ), 1946. Uppsala University .

Web links

Commons : Gottfrid Larsson  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Boo von Malmborg: J Gottfrid A Larsson. In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon , Riksarkivet
  2. ^ A b Anna Eklundh Jonsson: Gottfrid Larsson, 1875–1947. In: Kulturarv Östergötland
  3. ^ Robert E. Dechant, Filipp Goldscheider: Goldscheider. Company history and catalog raisonné. Historicism, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, 1950s. Arnold, Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 978-3-89790-216-9 , 640 pp.
  4. ↑ Marta Liljencrants (1884-1986). In: Pontus Möllers publiceringar. Samlade artiklar och forskningsresultat 1935–2009.
personal data
SURNAME Larsson, Gottfrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Larsson, Julius Gottfrid Andreas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Vallerstad near Skänninge , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1947
Place of death Stockholm , Sweden