Lena Lervik

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Bronze sculptures by Lena Lervik in Stockholm

Lena Lervik (born April 7, 1940 in Kristianstad , Skåne län ) is a Swedish sculptor who mainly creates mother figures out of bronze .

Life

Lena Lervik is married to the sculptor Thomas Qvarsebo, with whom she has a son. From her first marriage she has two daughters and a son.

education

Lervik studied successively for one year at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva , two years of sculpture at the faculty of the art school , then five years of sculpture and one year of graphic techniques at the Kungliga Konsthögskolan Mejan in Stockholm . She has been doing sculpting since 1960 and her first solo exhibition took place in 1976.

Topic

The central themes of her work are fertility and motherhood ; the central figures are the Madonnas and Mother Mary , mythological mother figures such as mother goddesses and fertility goddesses as well as modern mothers. In her work she uses seven symbols: germinating grain, spiral, fish, dove, moon, bees and Madonna. The portrayal of mother and child is of great importance to her. According to her own statements, she symbolizes life-giving power and sexuality in her mother figures, and myths from prehistoric times are objectified in her figures.

She consciously shapes her sculptures in strongly emphasized feminine forms and sets them against the “ theoretical ideals of beauty of our time”. Lena Lervik is able to give her mother characters a facial expression that reflects their dignity and their feelings. Suffering, tolerance and love are expressed in the faces of their mother figures. They show a clarity and lightness that are communicated to their viewers in an easily understandable language.

She makes her sculptures mainly in bronze but also in ceramics and as so-called grass sculptures (plant sculptures).

In the exhibition Lena Lervik Retrospective from December 1, 2007 to January 13, 2008, there was a visitor record with more than 10,000 visitors.

She has lived and worked in Stockholm for more than 30 years .

Works (selection)

  • Protective Coat Madonna (1985), Åmotfors Church in Åmotfors
  • Protective Coat Madonna (1989), Båstad
  • The great mother (1991, plant sculpture ), Reslagargatan in Stockholm
  • Frej and Freja (1992), Kristianstad City Library
  • Flickoma in Småland (1992), Ljungby
  • Borstahusgummen (1994), Landskrona
  • Maria Yugoslavia (1995), Engelbrektskyrkan Chapel in Stockholm
  • Stella Maris (1996), Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm
  • Reclining Venus (1997), Sculpture Park Kaptensgården the Kunsthalle Landskrona in Landskrona
  • Amalia, polkagrisens moder (1997, "Amalia, the mother of Polkagris ", a sweet), Södrapark in Gränna
  • Terra Mater (1998), Eggeby-Kulturhof, Rinkeby-Kista , Stockholm
  • Schutzmantelmadonna (2001), Framtidsdalen in Borlänge
  • Josef and Maria (2002), Nikolaikirche in Stockholm
  • A forgotten story (2003), Liljeholmen in Stockholm

Photo gallery

Web links

Commons : Lena Lervik  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c svd.se : Längan efter total förening dör aldrig of July 23, 2008 in Swedish, accessed on May 7, 2011
  2. ↑ skulptur.stockholm.se : Venus och Nerthus bidande sin tid (Venus and Nerthus Biding Their Time) , in English, accessed on May 7, 2011
  3. ↑ edsvik.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Lenal Lervik: Sculpture i främsta from March 20 to April 11, 2001 in Swedish, accessed on May 7, 2011@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.edsvik.com  
  4. ↑ trelleborgsallehanda.se  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : New Articles in Swedish, accessed May 8, 2011@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.trelleborgsallehanda.se  
  5. ↑ skulptorforbundet.se : Aktuellt-historik för Lena Lervik in Swedish, accessed on May 7, 2011
  6. ↑ maicar.com : Den stora modern in Swedish, accessed on May 7, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Lervik, Lena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Kristianstad , Skåne County , Sweden