Relief in marble from 1935 depicting Wilhelm Stenhammar, composer, conductor and pianist. Along with Hugo Alfv\u00e9n, Stenhammar is the strongest candidate as a national Swedish equivalent of the Norwegians’ Grieg, the Finns’ Sibelius and the Danes’ Nielsen. In addition, he was chief conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra 1907-1922 (then called the Gothenburg Orchestra Association) and one of the leading Swedish pianists of the time. Stenhammar has had the smaller concert hall in Gothenburg Concert Hall named after it – Stenhammarsalen. At the inauguration of G\u00f6teborgs Concert Hall in 1935, his second symphony was part of the programme.<\/p>\n
The artist behind the work is Bror Chronander (1880-1964). The artwork is recessed into the wall in the promenade outside the Great Hall.<\/p>\n
Sculptor, illustrator and painter. Raised in Karlstad where he became a student in 1898. Studied in 1900 for Richard Bergh at the Swedish Artists’ Association’s school and in 1903 for Carl Wilhelmsson at Valand. Has, among other things, performed “Fiolspelaren” located at the concert hall at Heden (the sculpture was destroyed in a fire in 1928) and “Arbetarhuvud” for G\u00f6teborgs Handel- o Sj\u00f6fartstidning and the bust “Peter Wieselgren” outside the Cathedral in Gothenburg. From the 1930s onwards, C. increasingly devoted himself to portrait drawing. C. has signed over 2,000 portrait drawings.<\/p>\n
56 x 39,5 cm<\/em><\/p>\n Representerad: G\u00f6teborgs konstmuseum, H.M konungens samling<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Relief in marble from 1935 depicting Wilhelm Stenhammar, composer, conductor and pianist. Along with Hugo Alfv\u00e9n, Stenhammar is the strongest candidate as a national Swedish equivalent of the Norwegians’ Grieg, the Finns’ Sibelius and the Danes’ Nielsen. In addition, he was chief conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra 1907-1922 (then called the Gothenburg Orchestra Association)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":3825,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/standard-small-image.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-69441","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-15 14:49:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"translation_priority"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69441"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104772,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69441\/revisions\/104772"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}