Edvin Öhrström
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a blue/ turquoise coloured cast glass sculpture of a bull's head, Lindshammar glassworks, Sweden, signed and dated 1953.
Signed E. Öhrström 1953, height 71 cm, including later stained pine base, width ca 59 cm, the base 35 x 21 cm.
Damage to the back of the right horn tip.
Provenance
Bukowskis Moderna, spring 1999, sale 511, catalogue no 921.
Literature
Märta Holkers, Folke Holmér, 'Edvin Öhrström, skulptör i glas', Carlssons, 1991, see pp 16-19 and compare the sculptures illustrated at the front and back cover.
More information
During the 1950s, Öhrström developed a method for casting glass in large modeled iron moulds. All sculptures except a few were executed at Lindshammar glassworks.
The first cast glass sculpture was a "Bull's Head" in clear glass that attracted a lot of attention when it was first shown in 1953. Öhrström used clear glass but also experimented with different colours, sometimes synthetic colours that had a greater opportunity to capture the light. This sculpture in blue-turquoise glass signed in 1953, should be one of the first coloured pieces of "Bull's Head".
In 1964, Edvin Öhrström won the prize competition for the decoration of Sergels torg with the pillar 'Crystal - vertical accent in glass and steel'. It was inaugurated in 1974, but only after the renovation in 2015-2017 did the obelisk finally get a new LED lighting where the colour of the light can be varied according to Öhrström's original idea.
Designer
Edvin Öhrström (1906-1994) was a Swedish visual artist, sculptor and glass artist born in Burlöv. He studied at the Art Academy and Tekniska Skolan in Stockholm and under Fernand Legér in Paris, etc. From 1936-1957 he was active at Orrefors glassworks. Together with Vicke Lindstrand, Öhrström helped develop the ariel glass, an innovative technology that was presented at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937 and for which Orrefors has become internationally known. Öhrström also designed cast glass for Lindshammar's glassworks and has created the work "Kristallvertikalaccent", a glass pillar at Sergels Torg in Stockholm, inaugurated in 1974. Today, the early ariel glass pieces from Orrefors are among the most sought after glass produced in Sweden.
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