Gottfrid Larsson [SEP] date of death
Gottfrid Larsson
Gottfrid Larsson (November 21, 1875 in Vallerstad in Östergötland, Sweden-December 24, 1947 in Stockholm, Sweden) was a Swedish sculptor.
Biography.
Julius Gottfrid Andreas Larsson was born in 1875 in Narveryd’s farm in Vallerstad in Mjölby Municipality, five kilometer northeast of Skänninge in Östergötland. His father was the farmer Anders Larsson. At the age of 14 he came to Norrköping in Östergötland where he stayed and worked as a wood carver and studied wood-carving (wood-engraving) at
1949), at Vallerstad church cemetery in Östergötland;
- and moreover there are some portrait busts and decorative sculptures in Norrköping town hall and granite sculpture in Handelsbanken at Drottninggatan and Kungsgatan.
Sources.
- Gottfrid Larsson i Konstnärslexikonett Amanda
- Gottfrid Larsson in Nordisk Familjebok, Uggleupplagan 37, Supplement L – Riksdag/, sidan 85-86, (1925)/a
- Gottfrid Larsson i Vem är det, Svensk Biografisk Handbok, 1925, sidan 424-425.
- Gottfrid Larsson i Vem är det, Svensk Biografisk