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Jonas Fröding
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Bronze was Jonas Fröding's natural language. Working in the figurative tradition he absorbed as a student of Carl Milles at the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm, Fröding gave his subjects - women, children, athletes - a sense of arrested motion, as if caught mid-gesture rather than posed. He went on to study in Paris and Germany before settling in Malmö, where much of his public work still stands.
Born in 1905 in Visnum, Värmland, he carried a distant kinship to poet Gustaf Fröding, though his own voice was entirely visual. Beyond bronze, he worked as a watercolorist, graphic artist, and glass painter, showing a versatility that extended well beyond the sculptor's studio. His public commissions brought him lasting visibility: "Flora" placed in Malmö's Floras hage (1936), a bust of polar explorer S.A. Andrée (1937), "De fyra årstiderna" at Ruds Cemetery in Karlstad (1947), and "Lekande barn" in Lund (1950). His stone sculpture "Mänskligheten i Guds hand" - Humanity in God's Hand - installed in Visnums-Kil, drew a direct line back to his birthplace. He died in Malmö in 1959, at 54.
At auction, Fröding's work appears primarily through houses in southern Sweden - Stockholms Auktionsverk Malmö, Helsingborgs Auktionskammare, Bukowskis Malmö, and Limhamns Auktionsbyrå. The 23 items recorded on Auctionist are overwhelmingly sculpture, with figurative bronzes of women and children forming the core of the market. Prices have reached 6,100 SEK for a signed female figure, and one piece sold for 5,000 EUR - a standout result reflecting the premium placed on signed, well-documented examples.