Willy Gordon
William Gordon (disambiguation)William Gordon • Illustration — The meeting in Östermalmstorg Willy Gordon (July 2, 1918 – July 12, 2003) was a Swedish sculptor and artist. Gordon's public artworks are displayed in a number of cities in Sweden.
Willy Gordon
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- Born
- 1918 · Reņģe.
- Died
- 2003 · Malmö.
- Nationality
- Sweden
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Education
- Royal Institute of Art
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William Gordon (disambiguation)William Gordon • Illustration — The meeting in Östermalmstorg Willy Gordon (July 2, 1918 – July 12, 2003) was a Swedish sculptor and artist. Gordon's public artworks are displayed in a number of cities in Sweden.
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Willy Gordon (1918–2003) was a Swedish sculptor. Born in Reņģe, the sculptor died in Malmö. Willy Gordon studied at Royal Institute of Art. Works by the sculptor are held at Nationalmuseum.
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Gordon was born at Ringen in the Russian gubernia of Courland (present day Reņģe, Ruba Parish, Saldus Municipality, Latvia) and later emigrated with his family to Malmö, Sweden when he was seven years old. He studied sculpture by Nils Sjögren, at the Royal University College of Fine Arts (Konsthögskolan) in Stockholm and later with Ossip Zadkine in Paris.
Portrait statues
Portrait statues
He also created statues of famous people, including singer Jussi Björling that is exhibited at the Björling Museum in Borlänge, musician Evert Taube (Evert Taube playing the lute) (1990) at the Evert Taube terrace in Riddarholmen, and a sculpture of Nobel prize laureate Selma Lagerlöf called The Crystal of Pain (Swedish: Smärtans Kristall) in Farsta. Gordon also created a monument in honour of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg on Lidingö, an island off Stockholm. Wallenberg is famous for saving tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during The Holocaust.
Science
Science
• Illustration — Sculpture of a protein molecule Willy Gordon also created sculptures of a scientific motif such as crystals and molecules. For example, he created the sculpture of a protein molecule: Carrier molecule, that depicts a protein chain.
International recognition
International recognition
In 1990 together with the architect Tsila Zak he won a competition for a monument in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius for the purpose of honouring its Jewish culture. The project, The Jewish Memorial Center in Vilnius, is situated on the site of the Shulhof and the Great Synagogue of Vilna.
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• Willy Gordon: Willy Gordon sculpture et dessins 1941-1951, catalogue, 24 p. • Willy Gordon (autobiography) (edited by June Rose; designed by Willy's wife Mona Gordon), Meta Bokproduktion, 112 p. chiefly ill., ports. 21 x 21 cm. c1976. Hebrew University SYSNO: 2220000. • Gordon, W. (1976). Willy Gordon. Järna: Meta Bokproduktion,
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• Illustration — Flight with the Torah, Stockholm Gordon was active in Stockholm for a major part of his life, and there about a dozen of his public sculptures can be found. For example, "Wives" in the Fruängen centre (1968), "Living ore" in Karlavägen street in the district of Östermalm in Stockholm, and "Flight with the Torah" outside the Great Synagogue of Stockholm. In Malmö a monument, created by Gordon, is installed at the cemetery to commemorate all the victims of the Holocaust. Gordon's sculpture "The meeting" also known as "Man with piece of meat - lying woman" (Man med köttstycke - liggande kvinna) is installed in Östermalmstorg square in Stockholm. It is a pair sculptures: a naked male figure bearing a piece of meat on his shoulders before a recumbent female figure. Gordon also produced "The meeting" in miniature in limited numbers. He also donated a copy to Bommersvik college in Sweden, where it is displayed in its art collection. Many of Gordon's works such as "Mötet" are highly stylised, influenced by Zadkine and also by other sculptors such as Eric Grate and Henry Moore.
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- 1.Jewish Community of Malmö.
- 2.Willy Gordon on artnet auction house
- 3.Björling Museum Tour
- 4.Jewish Chronicle (Sweden)
- 5.[https://www.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1968.tb20294.x Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Vol.146 Page 364 June 1968 Chemistry, Pharmacology, and Clinical Applications of Proteinase Inhibitors THE CHEMISTRY OF PROTEASES by Birger Blombäck (by subscription)]
- 6.The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Book catalog entry on Willy Gordon
- 7.Worldcat listing
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