Karl X Gustavus. Statue by John
Börjeson

on his large-limbed horse, looking out over the country of
Skåne like an imperious but popular master.

Teodor Lundberg has created a magnificent work of art
in The Billow and the Shore, in the Royal Palace. It is
modern in feeling and form; the contrast between the mas-
culine and the feminine is effectually emphasized, and the
pose gives expression to a vibrating life without infringing
on the plastic character of the work. The same artist has
created a figure full of power and vitality in Olavus Petri,
an embodiment of Lutheran courage, erected in 1898 outside
the Storkyrka in Stockholm. Among Lundberg's other
creations the stately group Svea with a Fallen Carolinian--
the so-called Poltava monument on the Artillery Grounds
in Stockholm--and the intimate, nobly composed group My
Family deserve special mention.

The tender beauty of woman's body is the chief subject
of Per Hasselberg's work. In the beginning he was some-
what bound by the French conception of form, but soon his

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