Gottfrid Larsson

Julius Gottfrid Andreas Larsson was born in 1875 in Narveryd's farm in Vallerstad in Mjölby Municipality, five-kilometer northeast of Skänninge in Östergötland.

At the age of 14 he came to Norrköping in Östergötland where he stayed and worked as a wood carver and studied wood-carving (wood-engraving) at the Technical Evening School in 1889–1895.

With the great scholarship from the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts he continued to study in France, and he mostly lived in Paris during the years 1908–1913, with visits to England, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Edward Berggren had studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm during the years 1897–1903.

Gottfrid Larsson participated in exhibitions, among others in Saint Petersburg 1908, Munich 1909 and in San Francisco 1915.

In 1935 Gottfrid Larsson had an exhibition in Konstnärshuset,[5] together with the Swedish artist and designer Arthur Percy (1886–1976).

Gottfrid Larsson
The Worker (1917), bronze statue in Vasaparken in Stockholm .
The Sower (1949), bronze statue at Vallerstad church in Östergötland, where he also is buried. The statue is erected in the churchyard there and Gottfrid Larsson was born in Vallerstad and the parish was his birthplace.