Often we are used to seeing EWK tackle the big political problems such as the environment, gender equality, rearmament and peace reconciliations. Here, EWK pauses the big and world-shattering to instead take a closer look at some of the most well-known Swedish cultural personalities of all time.
In 24 unique original drawings, we meet writers, singers, television and radio personalities from an entire century – people who all made an indelible mark on our popular history.
EWK said in a TV interview that his goal was to hear the voice when you see one of his cartoon portraits. The question is, do the voices of Lill-Bab, Greta Garbo and Lasse Berghagen echo through the pictures at the Arbetets museum? That is up to the visitors to decide.
Ewert Karlsson (1918-2004), known under the signature EWK, was born in the croft Rävbrinken outside Söderköping. He is Sweden’s most famous political illustrator of all time. He began his professional life as a farmer but was soon discovered as the skilled draftsman he was. In 1951, his dream came true and he moved to Stockholm, where he began a career as a professional cartoonist.
