Peter Lundberg

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Hua , Eschborn

Peter Lundberg (* 1961 in Green Bay , Wisconsin , USA ) is an American sculptor .

life and work

Lundberg is the son of Swedish immigrants . He attended Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs from 1979 to 1982 . From 1979 to 1982 he studied mathematics and physics , from 1983 to 1985 sculpture at Bennington College in Bennington , Vermont . From 1994 to 1997 he was artist in residence at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City in the borough of Queens of New York City and participated in the founding of Connecticut Sculpture Park in Bridgeport , Connecticut in 1995 . From 1994 to 2000 Lundberg was assistant to the sculptor Mark di Suvero and since 1996 his qualified crane operator, as well as 2001 with John Raymond Henry . Lundberg also worked in Sweden and Germany. From 1997 to 2000 Lundberg was a restorer for the Alexander Calder Foundation .

The artist lives and works in Bomoseen Rutland Counties in Vermont and in Nuremberg . He creates his monumental sculptures in, sometimes red, concrete and steel.

Works (selection)

  • 1996 Curl , Pratt University, New York City
  • 1996 Wild Slide , Saint Paul, Minnesota
  • 1997 Daquuigi , Seaside Park in Bridgeport
  • 1999 Where in Geometry (steel), Grounds for Sculpture Park in Hamilton
  • 1998/2002 Now Euclid , George Washington Bridge in New York City
  • 2002 Ingemar , Storm King Art Center in Mountainville
  • 2003 Vinga , Saratoga Springs
  • 2003 Dancing with Torsten , sculpture Hudson River Sculpture Trail (since 2004) in the neighborhoods of New York City Haverstraw and Saratoga in the State of New York
  • 2003 Figure 8 , Hudson River Sculpture Trail (since 2005)
  • 2004 Vevring , Vevring in ( Norway )
  • 2005 Group of figures, at the exit of the Holland Tunnel in Manhattan
  • 2006 Mississippi Gateway , New Orleans Museum of Art , New Orleans
  • 2006 Freya , Salem Art Works and Cary Lane Sculpture Park in Salem
  • 2007 Portrait of a Man and a Woman , Central Station in Nuremberg (First Prize: "Stop Art")
  • 2007 Utlunta , Cashiers Sculpture Park in Cashiers , ( North Carolina )
  • 2008 Hua , sculpture axis in Eschborn
  • ---- One Sculpture , campus Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans
  • ---- Looking to Sea , Riis Landing, Jamaica Bay, New York City

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Figure "Daquuiqi"
  2. ^ Sculpture for New Orleans: Peter Lundberg
  3. ↑ Salem Artworks website
  4. ↑ Figure "One Sculpture"
  5. ↑ Figure "Looking to Sea"
personal data
SURNAME Lundberg, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Green Bay , Wisconsin, United States