Liss Eriksson

La Mano.

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

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"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.

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
• 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")
• Mor och barn ("Mother and child")
• Ciss III - porträtthuvud ("Ciss III - Portrait")
• Faster ("Aunt"), Västertorp
• FN-monumentet ("The UN Monument"), Djurgården
• Den dövstumme negern ("The Deaf-mute Negro")
• Källan ("The Source"), Stockholm