Fontäner och Sfär
i Malmö

in Swedish

Fountains and Sphere

Sculptures by Sivert Lindblom, 1999.

When King Carl XVI Gustaf inaugurated the newly reimagined Gustav Adolfs Square (IDstory) in 1998, the sculpture group remained a promise for the future. Instead, it was the city commissioner Ilmar Reepalu who, in June 1999, welcomed the artworks to the square and to Malmö itself.

Rising as an artistic surge in the city’s heart, the group consists of five identical bronze fountains: in the warmth of summer, water jets play across their surfaces; when winter casts its shadows, fire dances above, bringing light and warmth to the square.

Upon the Sphere, visitors encounter a poem by Hjalmar Gullberg:

Kissed by the sun on the mouth
in a green quarter
I spring from the well
to delight you
I fall into the well
and am seen no more

as well as one by Heraclitus:

For souls, it is death to become water,
for water, it is death to become earth.
but from earth comes water,
and from water, soul

About the Artist

Sivert Lindblom was born in Husby-Rekarne in 1931. He studied at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and returned as a professor for a brief period in the early 1990s. Between 1966 and 1970, he taught at the Royal Institute of Technology.

Lindblom blends modern forms with classical ideals. Often, his own profile—playful and subtle, may be traced in the shapes of his work.

Other works by Sivert Lindblom in Skåne can be found in Tivoli Park in Kristianstad and on the façade of the Skissernas Museum – Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art (IDstory) in Lund.

References

• About BiBB, a media company and an encyclopedia 4.0
• Om Sivert Lindblom, Wikipedia.
• Konstantinopelhästen, Wikipedia
• Text: Christian Kindblad | Foto: Jonas Andréasson

Published: 2003.06 Updated: 2025.09.08

Kategorier 20 Kultur 12

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