Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd

Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd (born 1934), is a Swedish painter and sculptor.

He studied with Fernand Léger in Paris 1951 and was a professor of painting at The Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm 1965-1969. In 1974 he was a guest professor at Minneapolis School of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1986 he was awarded the Prince Eugen Medal for painting. [1]

Reuterswärd is known for his sculpture showing a revolver tied in a knot, called Non violence, on display outside United Nations headquarters in New York. The same work is also in Berlin, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Lund, Borås, Caen and Kirchberg, Luxembourg.

Gallery

An autobiographic trilogy

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References

  1. "List of recipients 1945-2007" (PDF). Royal Court of Sweden. Retrieved 15 February 2015.