Artwork: Hans (pojke)

The artist Margareta Engström trained at the Académie Libre in Paris and the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, and her art is characterised by lyrical, almost sacred, depictions of people and nature. The people are calm and often stand with their heads bowed. She has created numerous altarpieces and sculptures for churches and chapels, as well as decorations for hospitals, schools and libraries.

She has sculpted several children using her nieces and nephews as models. This is also true of the sculpture ‘Hans’, the metre-high boy in bronze, which stands outside the Sjösala sheltered housing facility in Bor. Purchased by the Municipality of Värnamo in 1979.