Medieval Lund was a city of churches and the needs of the cathedral led to Lund becoming the foremost centre of education within the Nordic region. As early as 1438, the Franciscan order had already established a centre for general studies. Located in the current Klostergatan, it provided a university level of education.Much of the […]
Lund Cathedral is the largest and most beautiful example of Romanesque style architecture in Scandinavia. It has been awarded three stars by the Michelin Guide and nominated as one of the seven wonders of Sweden by the national radio. Each year, the cathedral, which is open daily, is visited by over half a million people. […]
On 27 and 28 January 2017, the Museum of Sketches for Public Art was reopened on Finngatan 2. A new entrance, a museum shop and not least a restaurant have been added. The extension, designed by the architect duo Elding Oscarsson, is made of concrete and rust red Corten steel. Two anonymous donors account for […]
Driven by an endless desire to paint and draw, 24-year-old Carl Fredrik Hill moved to Paris where he pursued a productive artistic life. However, he did so with a strong, guilt-ridden father complex and sadness due to not having the time to demonstrate to his father what he was capable of. Suffering from chronic schizophrenia […]
C. H. Hertz’s father Gustav – Nobel laureate in physics in 1925. Gustav’s uncle Heinrich Hertz (1857-94) researched electromagnetism and gave the name to the frequency measurement Hertz. His research became the foundation of modern radio communication. When Hellmuth was born, his father worked in Berlin. He then took a job at Philips in Eindhoven to […]
“It’s based on a child’s desire to hide, slide and climb up high to feel that sense of danger.” This is how, at the end of the 1940’s, the Danish sculptor and architect Egon Möller-Nielsen explained the thinking that lay behind his play sculptures.One result has been that Tufsen gives the residents of Lund of […]
Born in 1862 at Karlberg Castle in Stockholm. Due to her artistic talents, she enrolled at the Technical School, today’s Art College, and then continued to the Swedish Royal Academy of Arts, which she left in 1887. She became a competent portrait and landscape painter and, in this category, could have had a mediocre career […]
During the period 1851 – 1930, almost 1.2 million people emigrated from Sweden to the United States and other transoceanic countries. The emigration numbers from southwest Skåne, however, were relatively small but, according to a comprehensive Emigration Inquiry conducted between 1907-13, a proportionally large number emigrated from Genarp, a village in the current Lund municipality.Immigration […]
