Liss Eriksson was born in Stockholm as the youngest son of sculptor Christian Eriksson and Ebba Dahlgren and grew up in his father's studio property  Maria Prästgårdsgata on Södermalm in Stockholm, where he himself lived and worked from 1951. At first, Liss followed her father's advice and began an architectural education in Norrköping. Despite his reluctance, Christian Eriksson gave his son a basic education in sculpture, and the turning point came in 1938, when Liss visited Liljevalch's spring salon, where, among other things, works by Henri Laurens and Pablo Picasso made a huge impression on him. He himself described that he was amazed and stunned to meet a new type of art, "not old men that I was used to in the studio back home".

 

He studied at the Art Academy in Stockholm 1939–1944 (for Nils Sjögren and Eric Grate). In 1947, Liss Eriksson participated together with Arne Jones, among others, in the exhibition Young Art in Color and Form, which was the prelude to the artist group 1947's men. He then traveled to Paris with his fiancee and future wife the artist Britta Reich-Eriksson (1918–2014) and studied with Jean Osouf and Henri Laurens and remained there until 1951.For Liss, sculpting was a search for a new, life-giving view of art. Away from old ingrained forms towards new ideas that could restore faith in man, art and society as a whole.

 

Liss Eriksson is a master of form. He creates a room for his sculptures and in his formwork he examines how different forms relate to each other - and also the surrounding void. His strength is also as a human portrayer, the human being is always at the center of his sculptures and at the bottom there is an emotional expression. Liss Eriksson was one of the most important swedish sculptors of his time. His works adorn several places and public spaces in Sweden.

Liss Eriksson is represented at the Nationalmuseum

 

Faster (1944), granite, Västertorp sculpture park in Stockholm

The Birdman (1971), bronze, Square in Arvika

The Boy Looking at the Moon or Iron Boy (1967), iron forge, Finnish church yard, Bollhustäppan, in Gamla stan, StockholmElanie II, outside the former SAF building on Blasieholmen in Stockholm

Virginity (1954), bronze, Lidingö, Norrköping and Västertorp sculpture park in Stockholm

The house where, among other things, Betungad is part (1961), ironwork, Kobjerstorget in Lund

Baptismal font of cut crystal glass (1961), Adolf Fredrik's church in Stockholm

La Mano (1977), red granite, Katarinavägen in Stockholm