page_title: Willy Gordon
section_title: Public sculptures
hierarchical_section_title: Willy Gordon / Art / Public sculptures
caption_attribution_description: English: The Flight with the Torah by Willy Gordon (1918–2003), bronze statue outside the Great Synagogue of Stockholm on Wahrendorffsgatan in Norrmalm, Stockholm, Sweden. The statue depicts a Jew fleeing with the scrolls of Mosaic Law. It was originally created in 1945 as a 53 cm (21") tall bronze statue. Later it was cast in greater scale for the Synagogue in Stockholm. Svenska: Flykten med Toran av Willy Gordon (1918–2003), bronsstaty utanför Stockholms stora synagoga på Wahrendorffsgatan på Norrmalm i Stockholm i Sverige. Statyn föreställer en jude som flyr med den rullarna med den mosaiska lagen. Den skapades ursprungligen 1945 som en 53 cm hög bronsstaty. Senare gjöts den i större skala för synagogan i Stockholm.
context_page_description: Willy Gordon was a Swedish sculptor and artist. Gordon was born at Ringen in the Russian gubernia of Courland and later emigrated with his family to Malmö, Sweden when he was seven years old. He studied sculpture by Nils Sjögren, at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm and later with Ossip Zadkine in Paris.
context_section_description: Gordon was active in Stockholm for a major part of his life, and there about a dozen of his public sculptures can be found. For example, ”Wives” in the Fruängen centre (1968), ”Living ore" in Karlavägen street in the district of Östermalm in Stockholm and "Flight with the Torah" outside the Great Synagogue, in Stockholm's inner city. In Malmö a monument created by Gordon exists at the cemetery to commemorate all the victims of the Holocaust.
caption: Flight with the Torah, Stockholm, Sweden. Photo: Bengt Oberger
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