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Margrét Jónsdóttir (Grísatjörn)The amusement park in Akureyri1994Gift from the artist Margréti Jónsdóttir dedicated to babysitters in Akureyri. Margrét was a town artist in 1992-93. More information about the artist on the website SÎM.

Davíð lays Goliat
Gatnamót Byggðavegar og Þórunnarstrætis2008A memorial to Jón Kristinsson who did not accept that one and the same person had both executive and judicial powers in a traffic violation for which he was convicted. Jón therefore took the case to the European Court of Human Rights, and when the Icelandic state saw that the defendant was in trouble, it sought a settlement with Jón and promised to make improvements. Since then, magistrates in Iceland have not exercised judicial authority as had been customary for centuries, but remain the chiefs of the police. Jón is the older man in the middle of the picture and has the magistrate and the minister of justice in the back and to the side. News about the unveiling of the monument
PassedPétur BjarnasonStrandgata1990

Let's promote fitness in Kjarnalund
The airline Flugleiðir gift to Akureyri town. The occasion was that on June 3, 1987, half a century had passed since continuous commercial flights began in Iceland with the establishment of Flugfélag Akureyr, the first Icelandic airline. Flight routes held a competition for works of art. Pétur Bjarnason's idea was chosen and on June 3, 1990, the work was unveiled. Pétur was born in 1955 and studied art in Reykjavík, Aachen in Germany and Antwerp in Belgium. Works by Pétur can be found in many places in the capital area.

Ágúst Jónsson1987In 1976, the book Oður steininsinThe work was unveiled on August 23, 1987, when 50 years had passed since the foundation of the Icelandic Naturopathic Association. The company was responsible for the construction of Kjarnalund, which was still under construction in the summer of 1987. The town of Akureyri rented the building for quite a few years and ran a nursing home there, but in 2004 it was sold. The artist, stone collector and master builder, Ágúst Jónsson, born in 1902 in Skiðadal, donated the work, but he fetched the material to the west of Skaga. On the back of the piece is a runner. Ágúst was an educated furniture and house maker and for a long time ran a carpentry workshop in both Reykjavík and Akureyri. He was a great collector of rocks and bequeathed his collection to the University of Akureyri on his 95th birthday, but the Natural History Institute in Reykjavík now preserves part of this collection. was published but in it you can find Ágúst's photographs of Icelandic rocks together with Kristján's poems from Djúpalæk.

Flight View
Jóhann Ingimarsson, NóiAkureyri Airport2001Nói was born on July 23, 1926. He studied furniture design in Denmark. After returning home, Nói Valbjörk hf. which was a company in the furniture industry with 70 employees at its peak. He later founded, together with his wife Guðrúna Helgadóttir, Örkina hans Nóa, a furniture store in Akureyri that was for many years at the forefront of furniture stores.
In addition to designing furniture, Nói has painted and made three-dimensional artworks that are located in many places in Akureyri. This artwork is owned by Flugfélag Íslands. The idea for the work is the take-off, but the circle can represent the wings and the rotating motor on the one hand, and the steam sphere on the other. The work is done in steel.

Four commemorative stones in memory of four Landsmót in Akureyri
At the 2009 Nationalsmót in Akureyri 2009at the sports area of ​​Þór and UFA in Akureyri, Helga Guðrún Guðjónsdóttir, a member of UMFÍ, and Hermann Tóm Jónasson, the mayor of Akureyra, unveiled these four commemorative stones in memory of the four Nationalsmót that have taken place went to Akureyri.

Friðbjörn Steinsson
Ríðbjarnar JónssonFriðbjarnarhús, Aðalstræti 461953Friðbjörn was responsible for the establishment of the Ísafoldar lodge, which became the beginning of the Good Templar Order in Iceland at Aðalstræti 46. In Friðbjarnarhús you can see a memorial room about the work of the lodge and there is also a Toy Exhibition organized by Guðbjargar Ringsted.

The harp of prayer
of the Reykjavík Art MuseumÁsmundur SveinssonHamarkotstúnDone in 1965The couple Marta Sveinsdóttir and the shipbuilder Guðmundur Jörundsson gave the work of art to the town in 1974 when it commemorated 1100 years of settlement in the country. Guðmundur was clairvoyant and in his mysterious power had come close to the "protected Eyjafjarðarbyggði" and was filled with such a wonderful feeling, gratitude and admiration that ever since he sought in a work of art to be related to this "large and extremely beautiful creature" that appeared to him once from the edge of Vaðlaheiðar and blessed the fjord. In the harp of the prayer, Guðmundur finally felt the same impression as when he saw the wonderful creature long ago.More information about the artist can be found on the website .

Heimur vonar
Jóhann Ingimarsson, NóiMenntakólinn á Akureyri2000The artist Nói - Jóhann Ingimarsson was in previous years one of the main entrepreneurs of the Icelandic furniture industry and worked in the design, production and sale of furniture almost all his working life. He has always been very active in his artistic creation. As a sign of that, no artist, neither living nor dead, can boast of having more outdoor works of art around Akureyri than Nói. He has also held numerous exhibitions of paintings and three-dimensional works. Here, Nói assembles an artwork from leftovers from the construction of bobbins, but bobbins are balls that are used on the bottom casts of trawlers. The work is made of steel and represents the earth and the value of education.

Hringfari
Jóhann Ingimarsson, NóiSunnuhlíðWorked in 1972The artist Nói - Jóhann Ingimarsson was in previous years one of the main entrepreneurs of the Icelandic furniture industry and worked in the design, production and sale of furniture for most of his working life. He has always been very active in his artistic creation. As a sign of that, no artist, neither living nor dead, can boast of having more outdoor works of art around Akureyri than Nói. He has also held numerous exhibitions of paintings and three-dimensional works. The work lasted for about 15 years at the Sports Complex in Oddeyri, but was then moved to its current location. The work is Jóhann's oldest outline work in Akureyri.

The whale bone
Helgi GíslasonSkólatorg Menntaskólinn in Akureyri2000On Skólatorg by Menntaskólann there is a bronze cast of the whale bone, uncovered in 2000, made by sculptor Helgi Gíslason. He was born in 1947 and studied art in Reykjavík and at Valand Art University in Gothenburg. Works by Helga are widely available in public ownership in Iceland. He has held numerous exhibitions both in Iceland, Scandinavia and Germany. He lives and works in Reykjavík, where he has taught and served on various committees and councils related to art.

Íslandsklukkan
Íslandsklukka

The Christmas cat
Kristinn E. HrafnssonHáskólinn á Akureyri2000The work was victorious in a competition held by the town of Akureyri to commemorate 1000 years of Christianity in the country and the reunion of Icelanders in the West. The artist is not referring to the literary work Íslandsklukku, but the work is called . Kristinn talks about how bells came to Iceland very early, and the inspiration for the piece is partly related to that, but also a quote by Göthe, who says that the truth should be heard in the air like the sound of bells. The mission of a university is really to seek the truth. Kristinn also talks about creating a place for non-verbal events. In 2000, when the piece was installed, the University of Akureyri was only 12 years old and therefore had a short history behind it and few traditions. With the work, Kristinn created the possibility to create traditions, to bring history and the present together, as well as the thought that we always have a share in history by creating events. Kristinn is one of the most respected and productive sculptors in the country, and his work can be seen in many places both indoors and outdoors. Young people in Fjölsmiðinn under the guidance of Aðalheiðar Eysteinsdóttir2009Much is hidden about where the Icelandic Christmas cat came from, but it is similar in many ways to foreign animals that appear in our neighboring countries during Advent. The Nordic Christmas cat is perhaps the foreign animal that our Icelandic Christmas cat resembles the most, but the animals have one thing in common: they keep a close eye on people in the preparation for Christmas and make those who don't get new clothes for Christmas a Greek. This is where the expression "going to the Christmas cat" comes from, i.e. that the Christmas cat eats those who do not get new clothes at Christmas. However, a milder explanation of the wording has actually also been put forward, which is that the Christmas cat eats the food from those who do not get new sparrows at Christmas.

The Christmas cat on Rádhústorgin was unveiled on November 28, 2009,


but the work of art was created by young people from Fjölsmiðinn under the guidance of Aðalheiðar Eysteinsdóttir, and it is in the spirit of her other wooden sculptures.The cat creeps its way into the Town Hall Square on the Saturday before the first in Advent and does not leave until the thirteenth on January 6th.

Jón Rögnvaldsson
Helgi GíslasonLystigarðurðin1995Jón Rögnvaldsson gardener, born in Grjótárgerði in Fnjóskadal on June 18, 1895. Jón studied horticulture in Canada but moved home and founded the Íslands Forestry Association in Akureyri. The name later changed to Eyfirðinga Forestry Society. In 1953, he took charge of the Pleasure Garden and held that position until 1970, then in his mid-eighties. The statue of Jóni was unveiled on Sunday, June 18, 1995, when it was 100 years since his birth.

Kjarvali II (Fjallamjólk)
Stefán JónssonGatnamót Geislagátu and Gránufélagsgatu2002Stefán Jónsson was born in Akureyri in 1964 and grew up there. He studied art in Reykjavík and New York. He is a sculptor/sculptor and has worked a lot based on Kjarval's works, and in this work he makes a three-dimensional work based on a familiar theme from a painting by Kjarval. This work is done in concrete, but the work has also been done in wood and displayed indoors. Stefán works and lives in Hafnafjörður and regularly shows the results of his artistic creations in prestigious galleries.

Women made the garden
Tove OlafssonLystigarðurðin á AkureyriA bas-relief that was perhaps unveiled in 1942, but there are reliable sources that the work was put in place in the park no later than the summer of 1944. The work was at one time a gift from a benefactor to Akureyri's Lystigarðurfélag. Tove (Thomasen) Ólafsson was born in 1909 in Copenhagen. Her connection to Iceland was through her husband Sigurjón Ólafsson, a sculptor.
http://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/883/origin/See more information about the artist on the following page

The Little Fisherman (Fiskermonument)
Knut SkinnerlandAt Strandgatu (at Menningarhúsið Hof)1962A gift from Álasund on the 100th anniversary of Akureyri's market place, 1962. The work is a copy (now or original, if you look at the years) of another larger one that was unveiled by the people of Álasund on the national holiday, 17 May. 1965. Kurt Skinnarland was born in 1909 in Rauland, Norway, but died in 1993. He studied art in his home country, as well as in Denmark and in Paris. There are works by him all over Norway and he enjoyed success in his home country.

Margrethe Schiöth
Jónas S. JakobssonThe Pleasure Garden in Akureyri1951The work was unveiled on Mrs. Schiöth's eightieth birthday, July 31, 1951. Margrethe, whose father's name was Friis, was from the town of Vejen in Jutland, but moved to Akureyri in 1899 and soon after married master baker Axel Schiöth. Margrethe is undoubtedly the first woman in Akureyri who thought to plant summer flowers in a bare area. She was the representative of the Lystigarðin for decades or until October 1, 1953, when she left as the chairman of the board of the Lystigarðfélag and Akureyrarbær took over the park. In 1941, Margrethe was made an honorary citizen of Akureyri, but she died on June 20, 1962.

Matthías Jochumsson
Ríkhardúr JónssonThe pleasure garden in Akureyri1916
On November 11, 1915, Matthías Jochumsson turned eighty. Earlier that year, several people in Akureyri had joined forces to erect a monument to him in the "flower garden south of Gagnfrædaskólinn". As luck would have it, this summer Matthías was staying in the south, which gave the sculptor Ríkhard Jónsson the opportunity to take a mold of the poet's head, which was then sent to Copenhagen, where the head was cast in bronze. However, the fact that the ship took the bronze statue to Iceland was delayed. The head therefore did not get to its place until May 1916. Matthías had then gone south to the capital, but had previously asked the men to go slowly. It would be best to put the head up in silence, was the opinion of the poet, without any ceremony. That was it. The poet's head still stands in its place in Lystigarður, but it was written about it in the spring of 1916: "When the original work of a famous person falls to the ground. A copy of his head is crouching in Lystigarði." This "copy" of Matthías's head is the first monument in Iceland erected in honor of a living Icelander.

Memorial stone with a relief of Hermann Stefánsson and Þórhilda Steingrímsdóttir.



Memorial stone to high school teacher Brynjólf Sveinsson High
Ragnhildur StefánsdóttirMenntaskólinn á Akureyri2006Former students and friends of the couple gave the project to the Menntaskólinn.Páll GuðmundssonSchool in Akureyri1997The high school's symbol, the owl, is carved into the stone that stands north of the old school building.

Monument to Hákarla-Jörund - HRÍSEY
Ríkhardúr Jónsson1957The monument is over two meters long and stands in front of the South Town Hall. Jörundur was Jónsson and was born on Christmas Day in 1826 at Ytri-Gunnólfsá in Kleif in the northern part of Ólafsfjörður. For most of his life he was a shark chairman and a farmer in Syðstabær, but moved to Hríseyjar in 1862. Jörundur died on October 10, 1888.

Memorial for the future
Monuments for the futureBrynhildur ÞorgeirsdóttirBy Drottningartjörn, east of Nonnahús1995In 1995 members of the Myndhöggvarafélag in Reykjavík were invited to take part in Art Summer in Akureyri. It was an outdoor exhibition where the artist chose a location within certain boundaries of the town. During her travels around the world, the artist has found it interesting to look at the kind of memorials that people choose to build for their loved ones and relatives, and she looks at cemeteries in the same way as art museums. To emphasize that the work has nothing to do with death, the artist gave the work this name. Brynhildur was born in 1955 and lives and works in Reykjavík. She studied art in Iceland, Holland and California. She also studied glass art in Orrefors, Sweden. Works by Brynhildi are widely available both in Iceland and abroad. She has been powerful in her artistic creation and exhibited in many parts of the world. Her art has been well described in the media over the years. A good book has been published about her art with many photographs.

http://brynhildur.com/More information about the artist can be found on her website

Memorial to lost and drowned sailors
Employees of Steinsmiðja S. HelgasonarGlerárkirkja1989The memorial was unveiled on June 4, 1989, when Sailors' Day was celebrated for the fiftieth time in Akureyri.

In the middle between closeness and endless distance
Kristinn E. HrafnssonIn front of Samherji fish processing at Hjalteyrargatu where Útgerðarfélag Akureyringa used to be1995
The work is a gift from the Akureyri town council to Útgerðarfélag Akureyringa hf. on the company's half-century anniversary, May 26, 1995. The work is to illuminate a walkway to the main entrance of the company's building. The title of the work is taken from a poem by Sigfús Daðason. The artist says about the work that it deals with the fact that we are always in some time or history – even in the middle of history. The three pillars are symbols for the past, future and present. The primitive forms; circle, square and triangle, stand as symbols for infinite possibilities.

Kristinn was born in Ólafsfjörður in 1960 and studied art at the School of Art in Akureyri and the School of Art and Crafts in Iceland and studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich, Germany 1986–1990. Kristinn has held numerous solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad, and he has works in all major art museums in Iceland.
More information about the artist is available on SÎM's website.

Nonni
Nína SæmundssonNonnahús1995Akureyri's Zontaklubur had a hard time bringing Nonna back home, but the original model of the statue, which was actually lost for several years, was made of plaster. Nína Sæmundsson made the work in 1958.
Nína (Jónína) Sæmundsson (1892-1965) was an artist, who worked for the longest time in the United States. Nína studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts in Charlottenborg Palace under the guidance of Julius Schultz and Einars Ultzon-Frank.

AfrekhugurMother's LoveSleeping Boy. Among the well-known works by Nina is the work , which stands over the main lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Park Avenue in New York. She also made the mermaid that was blown up on New Year's Eve 1960 and stood in Reykjavíkurtjörn. Another cast of the mermaid was sold in 2009 for a lot of money in a Reykjavík art gallery. She is best known for her sculptures such as and In the later years of her life, however, Nína mostly dealt with painting.

of the Reykjavík Art MuseumMore information about the artist on the website .

The North
Kristinn E. HrafnssonHof's House of Culture2010The work was unveiled at the inauguration of the Hof's cultural house on August 28, 2010, but the work is from 2007. Here the artist wonders what it means to be from the north - is it shaping attitudes, perspectives and culture ? Is the north a burden or light baggage in life - is the north a cultural condition? People, places and events are often defined by their global location, and in this work he does not give a categorical answer, but turns the issue over to the viewer to interpret and answer. This is a misleading compass, as it does not work as a guide except at the south pole of the earth.
MisvísunKristinn was born in Ólafsfjörður in 1960 and raised there. Kristinn held an extensive solo exhibition at the Art Museum in Akureyri in 2012. The exhibition was called and discussed various natural phenomena such as the Pole Star, the Earth's magnetic field and its rotation, and our perspective on nature in a larger context. He creates his work in a variety of materials and uses scientific research. He is an experienced fisherman and studied art in Iceland and Germany. He lives and works in Reykjavík and is active in exhibitions and has done many works in public spaces.

More information about the artist is available on SÎM's website

Settlers
Jónas S. JakobssonHamarkotsklappir1956The artist worked for a period in Akureyri and made the statue of Helga magra and Þórunni hirnu, who were the first settlers in Eyjafjörður, and the streets Helgamagrastræti and Þórunnarstræti are named after them, as well as the name of the nursery Hólmasólar refers to history their When the artist was 18 years old, he studied for two years with the sculptor Ríkhard Jónsson in Reykjavík and then the next two years after that with the sculptor Einar Jónsson.
of the SettlersThe statue was first made in concrete, but it was too fragile and destroyed, so it was rebuilt in bronze.
See more information about the artist on the website of the Akureyri Museum of Art .

Óðinšrafninn
ÓðinšrafninnÁsmundur SveinssonMenntaskólinn á Akureyri1990A cast of the work was made in the spring of 1990 on the 110th anniversary of the Mentaskólinn. The work is from the year 1952. This same work can also be found in Skallagrímsgard in Borgarnes.
Ásgrímur was born in Dälunum in 1893 and grew up there, but died in 1982 in Reykjavík. He came there at the age of 22 to study woodcarving and drawing. He then went on to study in Copenhagen, Stockholm and Paris. He was one of the pioneers of Icelandic sculpture and created his works of art in wood, metal, stone and glass. His works were not well received at first, but you could say that little by little people got used to them. In 1942 he began building a residential building and studio in Laugardaln in Reykjavík. The house is strongly influenced by Arabic domes and Egyptian pyramids. Ásmundur named his works and house after his day in Reykjavík. Today there is Ásmundar Museum, which officially opened in 1983. There are exhibitions of his art and others. Many of his works are located in the garden of the house. He did not want to lock sculptures in museums, but felt that they should be visible to everyone in squares and streets. He wanted most of his works to be located in public spaces. A number of books have been published about Ásgrím's art.
More information about the artist's work can be found on the Reykjavík Art Museum's website

Ode to the Night
Elísabet GeirmundsdóttirAðalstræti 701951The author of "Listakonan í Fjörunn" - among people most often called Beta Geir, her full name was Elísabet Sigríður. She was born in Geirshús - Aðalstræti 36 - in Akureyri, on February 16, 1915, and there on the beach she lived and worked in the short life she was given.
She married Ágústi Ásgrímsson at a young age, and together they built the house at Aðalstræti 70 according to her design. There she cultivated her garden better than most others and adorned it with sculptures she made in concrete. She died on April 9, 1959, only 44 years old.
Although Elisabeth was a "homebody", she was incredibly versatile in her artistic creation - seemed to be able to create works of art from any material she got her hands on - some as perishable as snow - others as eternal as words can stand while people speak.
She became known for her visual works, but she was also a good poet and a clever composer, even though she was illiterate. About Elísabeta and her work is the book Listakonan i fjörðurn, a very beautiful book, richly illustrated, which Delta Kappa Gamma - Félag kvenna i færðastörðurm published in her memory in 1989 under the editorship of Edda Eiríksdóttir. There you can see the many beautiful fruits of this great artist in words and pictures.

Páll Briem
Ríkharður JónssonThe Plantation Center in Akureyri1947Páll was a town councilor in Akureyri and one of the founders of the Norðurland Cultivation Association and its first chairman. In 1904, Páll was elected as Akureyri's first member of parliament, but he died in December of the same year and therefore never managed to sit in parliament for the town. Before that, he had been a member of the Snæfelling parliament. The bust was ceremonially unveiled on August 5, 1947.

Perlan
Elísabet GeirmundsdóttirAðalstræti 701951Perlan is the largest statue in the park at Aðalstræti 70 and stands by a pond. Perlan is the largest statue in the park at Aðalstræti 70 and stands by a pond. Elísabet built her house at Aðalstræti 70 together with her husband Ágústi Ásgrímsson. She made a drawing of it and a large garden around it with a fountain and a statue; The pearl. The work is done in concrete. The house is still today a magnificent monument to this remarkable multi-artist woman who died on April 9, 1959 at only 44 years old. A retrospective exhibition of her works was held at the Art Museum in Akureyri in 2015.
The author of "Listakonan í Fjörunn" - most often referred to as Beta Geir among people, her full name was Elísabet Sigríður. She was born in Geirshús - Aðalstræti 36 - in Akureyri, on February 16, 1915, and there in the fjörnar she lived and worked for the short life of she was given
Although Elisabeth was a "homebody", she was incredibly versatile in her artistic creation - seemed to be able to create works of art from any material she got her hands on - some as perishable as snow - others as eternal as words can stand while people speak.
She became known for her visual works, but she was also a good poet and a clever composer, even though she was illiterate. About Elísabeta and her work is the book Listakonan i fjörðurn, a very beautiful book, richly illustrated, which Delta Kappa Gamma - Félag kvenna i færðastörðurm published in her memory in 1989 under the editorship of Edda Eiríksdóttir. There you can see the many beautiful fruits of this great artist in words and pictures.

Solidarity at Oddeyri
Jóhann Ingimarsson, NóiVið Strandgätu2006The artist Nói - Jóhann Ingimarsson was in previous years one of the main entrepreneurs of the Icelandic furniture industry and worked in the design, production and sale of furniture almost all his working life. He has always been very active in his artistic creation. As a sign of that, no artist, neither living nor dead, can boast of having more outdoor works of art around Akureyri than Nói. He has also held numerous exhibitions of paintings and three-dimensional works. The work was unveiled in 2006 to commemorate a century since the founding of the Akureyri Workers' Union. The work is the property of the trade union Einingar Iðja. According to the artist, the work is about people being united.

Sailing
SailingSólfarJón Gunnar ÁrnasonVið Drottningarbraut1990Akureyrarbær had the work done on the occasion of the centenary of Kaupfélag Eyfirðinga (KEA) in 1986, but it was inaugurated on August 3, 1990 and stood at the corner of Glerárgatu and Kaupvangstræti. The employees of the slip station in Akureyri set the artwork in steel according to the author's instructions. August 25, 2014 was moved to a small fill to the east of the new walking and cycling path at Drottningarbraut. Jón Gunnar was an educated blacksmith, but then became an artist. He had a unique way of using metals in his works and subordinating them to the clear thinking of the subject. Works by him have been shown in Iceland, in the Netherlands and in Germany. Large retrospectives have been held at the Art Museums in Reykjavík and Akureyri and an excellent book about his art has been published. His best-known work is , located at Sæbraut in Reykjavík.

Sigurður Sigurðsson
Ríkharður JónssonGróðrarstöðinSigurður was born at Þúfa in Fnjóskadal on August 5, 1871, but at a young age he moved with his parents to Draflastaðir in the same countryside and was educated at that town. He studied bookbinding with Friðbirn Steinsson and agronomy in Norway. He founded the Trjáræktarstöðin in Akureyri in 1899. Sigurður was a school principal in Hól, president of the Icelandic Forestry Association and the first chairman of the Icelandic Forestry Association, founded in 1930. Sigurður died on July 1, 1940.

Sigurjón Ólafsson
Stefán Stefánsson head teacher at Menntaskólan in Akureyri.Akureyri Secondary School.1950s.
Sigurjón Ólafsson worked the face in plaster in 1933, but the torso not until 1950, when the work was unveiled on its pedestal, cast in bronze. More information about the artist can be found on the website http://lso.is/

Thrumguðinn Þór


Vocational School in Akureyri2004Around 1815, a statue of the god of thunder Þór was found in the area where the Vocational School in Akureyri now stands. In 2004, the Vocational School turned 20 years old, and for that reason, a replica of the Þórs statue was installed near the school. On the website of the National Museum of Iceland, it is stated that the so-called Þórslíkneski is a small human figure made of bronze. Certain stylistic features indicate that the statue was made near the turn of the century 1000. It has been believed to depict Thor, who was one of the foremost gods of the Norse people in the pagan tradition. The bronze man holds in both hands an object that has been thought to be Thor's hammer, but looks very much like a Christian cross.