Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd
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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
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Non-violence in Malmö, Sweden.
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The bronze sculpture Var rädd om jorden (Take Care of the Earth), inaugurated November 25, 2011, in Borås, Sweden.
An autobiographic trilogy
- 1988: Titta, jag är osynlig!, Gedins, reissued by Natur och kultur, 2000 ISBN 91-7964-033-8
- 1996: Alias Charlie Lavendel 1952-61, Natur och kultur ISBN 91-7964-226-8
- 2000: Closed for Holidays: memoarer, Natur och kultur ISBN 91-27-08057-9
External links
References
- ↑ "List of recipients 1945-2007" (PDF). Royal Court of Sweden. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
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