Liss Eriksson

La Mano.

Aunt, granite, Västertorp Sculpture Park, Stockholm. Photo: Bengt Oberger

"Boy looking at the moon" at Bollhustäppan in Gamla stan.

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, 1967
• La Mano, (Spanish: The Hand), Stockholm, 1977
• 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. Retrieved 2007-02-16.
2. "Liss Eriksson". Cultural Society of Gnesta (Gnesta Kulturförening). September 2003. Retrieved 2007-02-16.
3. Art in Uppsala
4. artnet
5. artnet
6. artnet
7. City of Stockholm
8. "Den dövstumme negern". Bukowski. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved 2007-02-16.
9. A P Sten