Kasper Ansgarius "Ansgar" Almquist (4 February 1889 – 15 June 1973)[1] was a Swedish sculptor, primarily of freestanding figural bronzes.

[2] In 1908 he began studying at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm; he continued in 1909 under the painter Carl Wilhelmson at Valand Academy in Gothenburg, and starting in 1910 in Paris, at the Académie Colarossi under Jean Antoine Injalbert and the École des Beaux-Arts.

[1][3] After the First World War, he returned to Europe in the 1920s on study tours in England, France, Germany and Italy.

He received a number of commissions for public art, including for Stockholm City Hall (four sculptures for the courtyard façade), the Gothenburg Museum of Art,[1][3] and the Stockholm Concert Hall (staircase sculptures and the lights and columns in the main hall),[4][5] and also executed sculptures in wood for the interior of SS Kungsholm of the Holland America Line; Venus is now held by Sjöfartsmuseet Akvariet [sv] in Gothenburg.

[1][3] His life-size bronze Gångaren (Race Walker) was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.