Liss Eriksson

Liss Eriksson (31 August 1919–19 July 2000) was a Swedish sculptor.

Life

The son of the sculptor Christian Eriksson (1858-1935), Liss Eriksson grew up on Maria Prästgårdsgatan on Södermalm in southern-central Stockholm. Following his studies at the College of Fine Arts for Nils Sjögren and Eric Grate in 1939-1944, Liss participated in the pioneering exhibition Ung Konst in 1947, before spending five years in Paris together with his wife, the artist Britta Reich-Eriksson, to study for Jean Osouf and Henri Laurens. He returned to Stockholm in 1951, in 1975 succeeding the studio of his father previously used by Sven 'X:et' Erixson (1899-1970). During his last years, he was working on a retable for the church Katarina kyrka, near his home.^[1][2]

List of works

• Pojke som tittar på månen ("Boy Looking at the Moon"), Stockholm, 1954
• La Mano, (Spanish: The Hand), Stockholm, 1985
• Paret, 1976, Stockholm ^[3]
• Huset ("The House"), Lund
• Korsgestalten och Den uppståndne ("The Crucified and the Risen"), Strömstad
• Ögat ("The Eye"), Norrtälje
• La Pucelle (French: The Virginity), 1950, Lidingö
• Stående kvinna ("Standing Woman")^[4]
• Mor och barn ("Mother and child")^[5]
• Ciss III - porträtthuvud ("Ciss III - Portrait")^[6]
• Faster ("Aunt"), Västertorp^[7]
• FN-monumentet ("The UN Monument"), Djurgården
• Den dövstumme negern ("The Deaf-mute Negro")^[8]
• Källan ("The Source"), Stockholm^[9]

References

1. ^ "Skulpturvandring Liss Eriksson". City of Arvika. http://www.arvika.se/turism/turskulpturvandring_erikssonliss.php. Retrieved 2007-02-16. 
2. ^ "Liss Eriksson". Cultural Society of Gnesta (Gnesta Kulturförening). September 2003. http://www.gnestakulturforening.se/liss_eriksson.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-16. 
3. ^ Art in Uppsala
4. ^ artnet
5. ^ artnet
6. ^ artnet
7. ^ City of Stockholm
8. ^ "Den dövstumme negern". Bukowski. http://www.bukowskis.se/cgi-bin/katget.cgi?0541@0243A@@0@0@0@@SE. Retrieved 2007-02-16. 
9. ^ A P Sten