Calle Olof Sigvard Örnemark (19 December 1933 – 4 August 2015) was a Swedish artist and

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from

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, Sweden. He is particularly known for his large wooden sculptures, but he also made paintings and metal sculptures. His first large sculpture was ''Jätten Vist'' (the Vist the Giant), completed in 1969 and standing over high next to the

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, at

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. According to the legend, the giant was on his way home from a party in

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. He threw some grass and soil into Lake

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for his wife to step on, thus creating the island

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. In the 1980s, his very large outdoor wooden sculptures ''Bounty'' and ''Indiska reptricket'' (the

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) at Riddersberg manor, south of

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, drew many visitors. The mobile ''Bounty'' resembled a ship, and the 103-meter-high ''Indiska reptricket'' was the world's tallest sculpture. Both were removed from the exhibition in 2007 after their condition had deteriorated. His later work includes a wooden balloon in

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, Sweden and ''Morgans skip'' in

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, Norway, showing the wrecking of

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's ship ''

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'' in the Caribbean. Örnemark lived and worked in Gränna but also maintained a studio on Visingsö. Örnemark died on 4 August 2015 at the age of 81.

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Calle Örnemark website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ornemark, Calle 1933 births 2015 deaths Swedish male sculptors 20th-century Swedish painters Swedish male painters 21st-century Swedish painters Swedish woodcarvers 20th-century Swedish sculptors 20th-century Swedish male artists 21st-century Swedish male artists People from Jönköping Municipality Artists from Jönköping County

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