Artwork: Marknadsbilder

Kyrktorget square in Värnamo is entirely decorated by the works of sculptor Bror Marklund. The artworks ‘Marknadsbilder’ (Market pictures) and ‘Marknadsgycklare’ (Market jesters) were purchased at the same time, and four years later they were completed with the sculpture collection ‘Mäster Olof’ (Master Olof).

The sculpture collection ‘Marknadsbilder’ stirred up emotions among the people of Värnamo. Not least the pregnant woman from the collection ‘Marknadsbilder’. In Carl Snoilsky’s famous poem about the lovers Per and Kersti, who met at the Värnamo market, there was no suggestion that Kersti was pregnant. However, the female figure among the sculptures is officially unknown.

The sculpture of a pig also upset people, who claimed that only sick pigs sit as Bror Marklund’s pig does. Nowadays, the pig is much loved and shiny from all the pats it gets. Purchased by the Municipality of Värnamo in 1970.