Gudmar Olovson | 1936 - 2017
Gudmar Olovson was educated at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm 1955–59 as a student of Bror Hjorth and Stig Blomberg. He lived and worked in Paris from 1959, where he collaborated with among others Paul Cornet (1892–1977) and Jean Carton (1912–88). Gudmar Olovson sculpted in the French classical tradition, including portraits of many renowned models. Five of his monumental free works can be found in Höllviken's sculpture park on Falsterbonäset in Skåne, Sweden as well as in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, at Ersta Hospital in Stockholm and numerous other public places and private homes and collections. He is represented at the National Museum in
Stockholm. Gudmar Olovson has his own sculpture park, the Château de Chevernys "Jardin de l’Amour" in the Loire Valley, France.
Gudmar Olovson was awarded many distinctions for his work and had over 30 one-man exhibitions in France, Sweden, USA, Luxemburg. Possibly his most emblematic work, the monumental Les Deux Arbres (The Two Trees, 1964-66, 236 cm), adorns the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, Falsterbo Open Museum, Château de Cheverny, Château Petrus, Ferring HQ Copenhagen and private collections.
Falsterbo Open Air Museum in Vellinge: Les Deux Arbres (236 cm), La Concorde (Concorde 1974, 155 cm), Prélude (Prelude 1983, 340 cm), Les Deux Soeurs (Two Sisters 1973, 240 cm) and Femme-Oiseau Blessé (Woman Like a Wounded Bird 1969, 160 cm).
Le Jardin de l´Amour, Château de Cheverny, Loire Valley France - six monumental bronzes (inaugurated 2019).
Les Deux Sœurs (Two Sisters 1973, 240 cm), Ferring New Jersey.
Prélude (1983, 220 cm) adorns Medicover hospitals in Warsaw and Bucharest
Portrait of Ingrid Bergman (1964), bronze, the port of Fjällbacka, Sweden.
Le Don (The Gift, bronze 2014), in the park at Häringe castle.
La Source (The Source), Installed 1970 at Ersta Hospital, Stockholm.
Selected commissioned portraits: HRH King Carl XVI Gustaf, HRH Crown Princess Victoria, Pope John Paul II, French presidents Charles de Gaulle, Georges Pompidou and Jacques Chirac, Ingrid Bergman, Lars Schmidt, Håkan Hagegård, Kjerstin Dellert, Lennart Jirlow, Eric Ericson, Jacob Wallenberg, Torsten Kreuger, Peter Wallenberg, Adolf Lundin, Jan Bonde, Gunnar Engellau, Per Norlin, Peder Wallenberg (Sager), Jonas af Jochnick, Gustaf Serlachius, Marianne Bernadotte, Conrad Ankarcrona, Carl Jan Granqvist.
