Bengt Amundin | 1915 - 2011
Bengt Erik Amundin, born in Gothenburg, died in Åkersberga, was a Swedish sculptor. He grew up in Gothenburg and first trained as a sculptor from 1934 at the Slöjdföreningens school in Gothenburg, for, among others, the architect Sigfrid Eriksson and the sculptor Johan Björk. He then studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm 1938–1944, the first four years with Nils Sjögren and the last two years with Eric Grate as teacher. His first public work was a narrative composition about tobacco in front of the entrance to the Tobacco Monopoly in Nässjö in 1946, later moved in 1971 to Arvika. During the 1950s My first sculptures in public places were executed in figural representation. The first in 1946, a narrative composition about tobacco was placed in front of the Tobacco Monopoly's entrance in Nässjö. In a competition for a sculpture in Borås, I won with a triangle composition with children playing, where the figures were executed as if the children themselves had been involved in the creation. The sculpture was placed in 1949 outside the gymnasium in Trandared, Borås.
During the 1950s, he sought in abstract sketches in various materials to find a formal language for intangible phenomena that can nevertheless be sensed and experienced as concretely present reality. Then "Rymdspira", "Meeting of two volumes", "To a drone" and "Transformed bird" were added. Other sketches during this period were later executed in large format: "Space volume" in Åkersberga center, "Daphne's transformation" in white fiberglass-reinforced plastic for Hägernäs center and "Cosmic Room" in bronze for the H-55 exhibition in Helsingborg.
