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The house were Ture did his arts.

Ture i Berg was a sculptor who lived from 1896 to 1984.

Background

Ture i Berg, his real name was Ture Alfredsson lived from 1896 until 1984. He lived on a little farm with his sister Gunborg in Gängene, Sillerud, Sweden. At the little farm they had cows, horses and sheep. He was a sculptor who made things from trash, stones and wood. His most famous sculpture is a horse with it´s body made of a barrel, head and legs made of wood, button eyes, and made a tail of bundle. There is a copy of the horse, you can see it in Svensbyn Sillerud.

Biography

Ture was a lonesome man who lived in an area which was very unpopulated and he was a little bit of a hermit. When he was 67 years old he retired and had nothing to do. Then he looked around and saw many things like stones, trash and barbed wire. He used everything he could get of. Everything could be art, according to Ture i Berg. He had an enormous imagination. His art expresses his feelings for animals and people. His relationship to women was dysfunctional his whole life, in his art men and woman never do something together. But he had a few things with men and womans but oftenit was a struggle between them. And it was one of the reasons why he was concidered as a original.

This is a copy of Ture i bergs horse Spatte-Roland.

He made around thirty sculpturs which you can see everywere around his home and sorroundings. And they are of a natural sizes. There are a groupe of working farmers, or wind weels, animals in several sizes and a coffee table with artificial tulips. In the middle of all the sculptures there is a watchtower were you can see all the sculptures.