Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd

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

Life

Reuterswärd was born in 1934 in Stockholm. In 1952 he studied at the Paris studio of Fernand Léger. In the 1960s he was part of numerous exhibitions and events at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. From 1965 to 1969 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in the Swedish capital. Around the same time he also began the first experiments with lasers and holography, which were later included, among others, as part of the Kilroy Project project in his work. In 1974 he was a visiting professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in Minneapolis. From 1977, he portrayed numerous personalities with whom he was friends, including Salvador Dali, Francis Bacon and Jean -Paul Sartre. After a stroke in 1989 his right hand was paralyzed and he retrained on the left.

Its probably best known work is the sculpture of a revolver with a knotted barrel, which bears the name of Non Violence. Inspired to this idea Reuterswärd after the death of his friend John Lennon. The bronze sculpture is currently at 16 worldwide locations. The first three versions can be admired at the UN headquarters in New York, in Malmö, Sweden and Luxembourg. Additional copies are available for example in Berlin, Caen, Gothenburg and Stockholm.

Other exhibitions of his works were recorded for example in the Moderna Museet, Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Sprengel Museum in Hannover.

On the occasion of the exhibition a donation of more than 300 prints and drawings from his oeuvre at the Kunstmuseum Bayreuth, he also realized there a Non-Violence sculpture, which has been available since April 3, 2011 in the town square ( Maximilian Street ). In 2013, he donated a large number of drawings, paintings and sculptures, the Sprengel Museum Hannover, which now houses the most important collection of his art.

Literature (selection )

• Marina Assel, Norbert Nobis: Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd: 274 drawings and prints. A gift from the artist to the Art Museum Bayreuth, Bayreuth 2011, ISBN 978-3-935880-22-0
• Norbert Nobis: Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd: The graphic work, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover 1993, ISBN 978-3-89169-074-1
• Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd. Style is fraud or Collected Works. Sprengel Museum Hannover, May 4 to June 22, 1986, 1986, ISBN 978-3-89169-031-4