Eric Grate

Eric Grate studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm between 1917 and 1920.

In France he lived in the companionship of a number of other Swedish artists, including Nils Dardel, Isaac Grünewald, Sigrid Hjertén, Otto G. Carlsund and Otte Sköld.

Grate has been commissioned for at great number of public works of art in Sweden.

The most famous of its time was The Etymological Woman Theft which was erected outside the premises of Karolinska Institutet in Solna, a suburb of Stockholm, towards the end of the 1950s.

The controversy was not resolved until a decision by the Swedish Superior Court of Administrative Matters was taken in favour of the sculpture.