On the playground in the Gothenburg district Topasgatan Tynnered find since the 60's a sculpture, which still shows an old bath method. A mother bathing her child in one of the former bathing bowls, of course, as the whole sculpture is cast in bronze. Built
As the residential development at the Topasgatan early 60s on a wooded area, had these buildings already have a modern bathroom, but it was in the vicinity of traditional wooden houses, which lacked the comfort and where children in tin pans and tin bowls were bathed. At these break thought the artist as he created his work 1960-1962, which was exactly express the break this time and placed symbolically on a playground was.
Åke Jönsson (1921 -1992) was born in Osby and initially worked as a laborer in Skåne. He was then but Konstfack in and out of the Kungliga Konsthögskolan in Stockholm sculptor and graphic artist. Åke Jönssen, who made several sculptures in Gothenburg, taught from 1953 1961 at the School of Art Valand in Gothenburg. Some of his works can now be found in several museums in Sweden.
As the residential development at the Topasgatan early 60s on a wooded area, had these buildings already have a modern bathroom, but it was in the vicinity of traditional wooden houses, which lacked the comfort and where children in tin pans and tin bowls were bathed. At these break thought the artist as he created his work 1960-1962, which was exactly express the break this time and placed symbolically on a playground was.
Åke Jönsson (1921 -1992) was born in Osby and initially worked as a laborer in Skåne. He was then but Konstfack in and out of the Kungliga Konsthögskolan in Stockholm sculptor and graphic artist. Åke Jönssen, who made several sculptures in Gothenburg, taught from 1953 1961 at the School of Art Valand in Gothenburg. Some of his works can now be found in several museums in Sweden.
Copyright Text and photo: Herbert Karlin
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