EWK SIGNS THE CULTURAL ELITE

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.