Konstverk Hjalmar Branting

Hjalmar Branting

Artists: Gervasio Bernardi & Torsten Bryngelsson

Location: Ljungby, Dansbanevägen

Year: 1952

At the entrance to what was once Ljungby's Folkets Park, there is the bust of Hjalmar Branting with the inscription "To the People's Park by Ljungby Workers' Organizations 1952." In 1896, Branting was the first representative of the Social Democratic Labor Party in the Riksdag, and in most public parks around Sweden, a bust of Hjalmar Branting or Per Albin Hansson belonged to the necessary props. Folkets Park in Ljungby was, right up until 1968, when the park burned to the ground, a popular place for fun with a large outdoor theater and dance floor, and the sculpture has been allowed to remain as a memorial to the former site.

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