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Bror Marklund – Sculptor and scenographer F331


Bror Marklund's art has been described as eroticistic primitive, a raw pagan style mixed with medieval features, brutality, and the monumental as a consistent theme. In Marklunds words: "To create a beautiful thing, it never happened".

Marklund started as an ornament sculptor and student of Carl Milles and Nils Sjögren at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. Between 1934 and 1936 he traveled in Italy and France and was strongly influenced by modernism. Marklund was particularly impressed by the work of Ossip Zadkine and Henri Laurens. Others who left traces in his art were Pablo Picasso and Henry Moore.

Bror Marklund created the scenography for Mäster Olof, which came to consist of three monumental blocks of stone stacked on top of each other, an image for the rising and falling directions of movement in the play. Marklund also designed the costumes for the cast consisting of nearly 30 actors.

"In order to penetrate Strindberg's world, I had to make all the figures in plaster. To be able to talk to them, understand them, touch them, and get close to them as individuals.” The figures were exhibited at Galleri Gummeson in 1972 and were later cast in bronze.
 
38 items
Bror Marklund, enamel on metal.
Bror Marklund, enamel on metal.
Hammer price 
2 000 SEK
Estimate
3 000 SEK
Bror Marklund, enamel on metal.
Bror Marklund, enamel on metal.
Hammer price 
2 000 SEK
Estimate
3 000 SEK
Bror Marklund, enamel on metal.
Bror Marklund, enamel on metal.
Hammer price 
12 000 SEK
Estimate
3 000 SEK
Bror Marklund, wall relief, unsigned, concrete.
Bror Marklund, wall relief, unsigned, concrete.
Hammer price 
23 000 SEK
Estimate
8 000 SEK