Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, one of Sweden’s best-known modern artists and the creator of the iconic knotted revolver sculpture, has died at 81.
The sculptor died in a hospital in Helsingborg, south-western Sweden, on Tuesday evening, said Thomas Millroth from the Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd Art Foundation. No cause of death was given.
Reuterswärd, who spent time in New York, was inspired to create the bronze gun sculpture, called Non Violence, after the fatal shooting of singer and peace activist John Lennon in 1980.
One version of it is displayed outside the UN headquarters in New York; others are in various cities around the world.
