CARL Petterson (who liked the king)
And many other strange statues in Stockholm
The Handshake rejoyced (…none of us really liked it) We all know that almost 60 years ago the Korean war was raging on in Asia and none of us never really liked it. But on July 27, 1953, there was a handshake between the North Korean marshal and the US President on the agreement to stop shooting, which led to the end of the war. But technically, it still goes on to this day. In 1939, a man called Mikael Dubowski moved from Katowice, Poland, after WW2 broke out, to Stockholm, Sweden, when he was just newborn. As a child he was very interested in the great wars that had been and going on at the time (WW1 and WW2). And when the Korean war broke out in 1950, he wanted to study this conflict in depth. He had studied at Kungliga konsthögskolan (The Royal Academy of Art) in Stockholm, and was also educated in the art of making statues. So when the war ended and when the leader's shook hands, he decided to make this statue. This became a great symbol of peace in Sweden and Dubowski earned a lot of money by making this statue. The City decided to place the statue where Dubowski was educated as a kid. It can be found at Gröndalsskolan, Gröndal, Stockholm.
Majestic (the missing body part)
This statue represents a really, really majestic lion with lots of pride. You can find this amazing statue in Gröndal, Stockholm, Sweden. The artist is called Chang Wa Ching and I know you are wondering why this statue is So famous but it actually has a great story: There was a small circus in the small town of Gröndal and within this circus a lion was born... Majestic! He was the first lion to be born without a tail and the sculpturer, Chang Wa Ching, was present at the birth of this lion and was very taken by the fact that it had no no tail. So, he honored the great lion Majestic by making a statue of it WITH a tail to make Majestic feel better. This of course has become very famous
Three fat ladies (being themselves) These ladies are the happiest girls in Stockholm, undoubtedly . It's all about being thin nowadays, but these three women think that you are happier and prettier overweight. They started a club called "The fat ladies club" which today has over 20,000 members, (most of them dead now though). It's not about being fat its about being against today's "model skinny" ideal. The statue was made by one och the girls’ husband ,named Arnold Bjork. It was made in year 2000 but unfortunately he died in September 2014. The statue is a very big tourist attraction. You can find the statue outside their office, by the water at Liljeholmskajen.
The Mad Goat The artist is Dick Dickson. The statue is in memory of Tomas Greg and his goat Sture. The statue was made in the nineteenth century But the story about Tomas and Sture is about one point five thousand years old. The story takes place in Sweden during the Viking area when Tomas found an injured goat in the forest. He carried the goat home to his house and fed him and named him Sture. In just a minute they were best friends, but after a week Sture started to scream without Tomas knowing why. Tomas felt bad for him so he went down to the only veterinarian in the village and asked what was wrong with him. The veterinarian sent Sture back to Tomas and said that Sture has the ? of a fly and that he screams because he likes to scream. The neighbours went mad at both Sture and Tomas, so in the end one guy chose to kill both Tomas and Sture. And since that day they were killed off. Everyone in the village could be happy and enjoy a walk without hearing a stupid goat scream.


King Carl (a guy who probably liked The King himself, or, the idea of being royal)
The name of this statue is King Carl and the story behind it is: About 100 years ago there was a man with the name of Carl Pettersson, who liked the king a lot. Every day he went to the royal palace thinking "today i will meet the king, and he´s going to like me as much as I like him". But he never saw the king which made him sad. One day on his way to the palace he slipped on a banana peel, and fell on his head. When he woke up the next day he thought he was the king. So he went to the palace where he thougt he lived, but the royal guard stop him and asked him who he was, and he answered: "Dont you see? I am King Carl! And I live here!” But the guard did'nt let him in. The next day he went to the palace again but the guard didn’t let him in. From that day Carl Pettersson stood outside the palace from early morning till late night.
The Brand
The Brand
The BRAND
The name of this statue is "The brand". This statue is made by William Smith, 1654. The story behind this is that it was used as a car part for a car that belonged to the queen. The queen died in a car accident and the only part that was not broke was a part that was constructed in 1654. Today, you’ll find it in Axelsberg - as the memory of the queen.
Eternal Jump
This is a beautiful, small statue, placed on Varvsgatan, in Stockholm. It is named ‘Eternal Jump’ and made by Julia Smith in 1989. The statue portrays a little girl jumping rope, and the story behind to why it is there is quite interesting: The story claims to be something like this; In 1980, a what looked like a nine year old girl was known in her small town to be the ‘girl that jumps rope’. See jumping rope wasn’t uncommon these days, however this girl always jumped rope in the middle of the streets, with a unnoticeable frown on her face. People fond this to be very odd, they always asked her questions about why she did it, they never got any answers. She wasn’t mute, it had more like a selective mutistic feel to it. The people in the town respected her decisions, and let her be- the schedule always changed but she always jumped rope at least once every day. All off this was never the case, years later they found the girl dead- hung in a tree near her house, and yes you guessed it, the same rope she used was around her neck in an unpleasant manner. It turned out that her parents were awful, straight up terrible to their daughter. The parents just wanted to punish her, they made her jump rope for hours without any pauses, this was all too much stress for the nine year old and she decided to end her life. In honor of the strong girl that never told anyone about her hard life now has a statue of her jumping rope.
The mighty horse (and it’s NOT Kerstin Karlsson)
Kerstin Karlsson was an artist that despised all forms of monarchy and bureucracy. She created art that was supposed to question the government and make people think.
The background story behind The Mighty Horse is actually pretty interesting. The Swedish King Karl-Johan was addicted to horsebetting and spent the Swedish taxmoney on horses. One day his regular horse,
The Mighty Horse,
had the highest odds so of course he bet everything on him. The race began and it was really obvious that his horse would win. But suddenly, near the finishline,
The Mighty Horse tripped and fell. The audience screamed as horse number two crossed the line. The king lost all hismoney and Sweden went bankrupt.
The Royal Mistress The royal mistress was made in 1895. 

The statue portrays Therese, King Gustaf Vasas mistress. The statue was made by Emma Lindgren, Astrid
Lindgrens mother in 1895 for a German count, but it was destroyed in World war 1. You can find this copy at
The Big One
The statue’s name is "The big one“. It portrays a big fish, you can find it in Årsta,Stockholm The statue was built in 1932 and the artist that sculptured it was Karin Berggren. It was on order after a fishing contest, and Gustav Hermansson was the winner. After he had caught the largest fish, Gustav and Karin Berggren met and became friends. The sculpture symbolises the fish that Gustav caught and it still the largest fish ever caught in Sweden. Since then, the statue is the symbol for the annual Stockholm fishing contest, and a memory of that magic moment for Gustav Hermansson. Each year the winner gets a smaller copy of the statue, made in pure GOLD as a price.
The Man with the BIG Ears You can find it at Gamla Brogatan in Stockholm, Sweden. You take the subway to Tcentralen and then you walk past a restaurant called The Meat house, then you turn left and It's right there. The artist was called Gunnar Larsson, but he is not very famous. When the Man with the BIG ears was a young boy, he was VERY Curious. One day he was walking in the street and overheard a conversation between two soldiers.
They were talking about the second world war, they said that Germany had lost. The boy told everybody he knew about it and no one believed him. The next day they heard about the news and the boy was known by everyone in town (as the first person to have spread the news). When he past away the people of Stockholm wanted to honor his life.
Welcome to the last statue: the headless boy. This statue is from year 1903 and portrays a young boy with Dutch ancestry. He was made a statue due to the fact that he was THE 1:st Dutch boy who went out in a thick raincoat on a bright summer’s day in Stockholm! Quite extraordinary ! The Artist was Simon Rinaldo, still alive today, and mostly known for making statues without the head.
The Head less Boy