Konstverk Kvartershistoria

Artist: Sven Ljungberg (1913 - 2010)

Location: Ljungby, Korsningen Stationsgatan – Storgatan – Kungsgatan

Year: 1982

Look up at Posthuset's facade and you are looking straight into Ljungby's past. On three large plates, scenes from Ljungby's history are depicted, most of which took place in buildings that once existed in the block where the post office stands today.

The facade plate facing Sven Ljungberg's place shows how the work on erecting the post office building in 1982 was carried out.

In the corner, left plate:

Here, a business expedient is shown that lifts the hat for a customer who has just entered Lindén's spice shop. Two young lads inspect the cinema selection on the notice board that once stood here in the corner. At Niklasson's café, café visitors drink both from a cup and from a saucer. A throng of horses, pedestrians, cyclists and train travelers shows the ruljang around the nearby railway station. The man with a hat standing under the big clock is hat maker A.F. Svensson. Right next to it, the Kärleksalmen hides a couple in love, and in the lower corner the baker stands ready to shovel the bread into the oven of the block's steam bakery.

In the corner, right plate:

A lady in a hat tries on new clothes in Linnea Bergman's clothing store. In the neighborhood you could both shop for baskets and visit Mrs Nymans's flower shop. Perhaps it is a newly engaged couple immortalized by the photographer from Hertzberg's photo studio? The postal rider symbolizes the post office's operations.

The artwork Kvartershistoria is 80 square meters in size, executed in sgraffito technique where motifs are scratched out in different layers of mortar.

© Sven Ljungberg / BUS / 1982

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