Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd

Swedish sculptor

Date of Birth: 04-Jun-1934

Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden

Date of Death: 03-May-2016

Profession: poet, painter, sculptor

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd (4 June 1934 – 3 May 2016) was a Swedish painter and sculptor. He studied with Fernand Léger in Paris 1951 and was a professor of painting at The Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm 1965-1969.
In 1974 he was a guest professor at Minneapolis School of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
In 1986 he was awarded the Prince Eugen Medal for painting.Reuterswärd is known for his sculpture showing a revolver tied in a knot, called Non violence, on display outside the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City.
Versions of the work are also on view in Berlin, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Lund, Borås, Caen and Kirchberg. Reuterswärd died of pneumonia at a hospital in Landskrona, Sweden on 3 May 2016, aged 81.



Description	Danish photographer
Date of birth/death	18 November 1935	14 January 2018
Location of birth	Copenhagen
Authority control	: Q689120 VIAF: 85027074 ISNI: 0000 0001 1772 9226 LCCN: n00027928 GND: 122067223 SUDOC: 052485188 WorldCat