Artwork: Marknadsgycklare

The colourful tin ‘Marknadsgycklare’
(Market jesters) light up Kyrktorget square. They were purchased at the same
time as ‘Marknadsbilder’. In the 1920s, Bror Marklund became an ornamental
sculptor in Stockholm and then a student of Carl Milles and Nils Sjögren. He
studied at the Royal Institute of Art, where he was admitted in 1928 having
submitted a number of works in wood. During the 1930s he travelled to Italy and
France on a scholarship and spent his time drawing. There, Modernism had
progressed considerably further than in Sweden and he was influenced by Henri
Laurens, Pablo Picasso and Henry Moore, among others. His art has been
described as eroticist primitivism. He himself said: “Making a beautiful thing;
I never got around to that.” During his career he received numerous awards and
grants.

He was a sculptor who
preferred to model figures in motion and at rest, and his three main motifs
were the jester, mother and child, and figure in a storm. Purchased by the
Municipality of Värnamo in 1970.