The Branting Monument

The bronze relief monument, by artist Carl Eldh, is located in a small park at Norra Bantorget in Stockholm, which is the traditional Social Democratic grounds of the city.

[1] The monument shows a prominent looking Branting addressing a group of workers on a May Day demonstration.

On 17 May 1992, the monument was partly damaged when a small bomb exploded and blew up a hole in the belly of the Hjalmar Branting figure.

This was the fourth in a series of five statue bombings in Stockholm that had begun on 25 February and ended on 8 June.

The monument was restored two years later by the local company Herman Bergmans konstgjuteri AB, the foundry that had originally made it in the early 1950s.