Eric Grate (August 14, 1896 – August 3, 1983) was a Swedish sculptor, painter and graphics artist. Education Eric Grate studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm between 1917 and 1920. Thereafter he undertook study trips to Germany, especially to Munich, and to Italy and Greece. He moved to Paris in 1924 and stayed there for ten years. In France he lived in the companionship of a number of other Swedish artists, including Nils Dardel, Isaac Grünewald, Sigrid Hjertén, Otto G. Carlsund and Otte Sköld. Between 1941 and 1951 he was a professor at the [Swedish] Royal Academy of Arts. Grate has been commissioned for at great number of public works of art in Sweden. The most famous of its time was The Etymological Woman Theft which was erected outside the premises of Karolinska Institutet in Solna, a suburb of Stockholm, towards the end of the 1950s. This heralded the start of one of the fiercest public debates about the arts in Sweden during the 20th century. The majority of the faculty of the Institute protested against the sculpture as indecent and against the ethics of medicine. The controversy was not resolved until a decision by the Swedish Superior Court of Administrative Matters was taken in favour of the sculpture. Public works of art The Urn of the Mines district iron ore 109 cm in height (1921–22), Gothenburg. This urn was manufactured by Näfvekvarns bruk (Näfvekvarn Iron Works) in a series and has been purchased by a number of Swedish museums Faunfigur, Faun figure (1923), Hotel Liseberg, Gothenburg Statues at the Norra Kungstornet Building (1925), Kungsgatan in Stockholm Relief above the entrance of the Art Exhibition Building in Falun (1936) Folkvisan, The Folk song (1937), Bromma High School in Stockholm, Liseberg Amusement Park in Gothenburg, Bäckängsgymnasiet in Borås Årstiderna, The Seasons limestone (1937–41), Rosenbad (The Government Chancellery), Stockholm Folket och tekniken, The People and the Technology, part of a relief in chamotte clay (1937), decoration for the World Exhibition in Paris 1937, Runö Training Centre, Åkersberga De fyra vindarna, The Four Winds (1937–41), four reliefs at front of the extension of the City Hall of Gothenburg by Gunnar Asplund Badet, The Bath and Nereid two reliefs in terracotta (1943), The City Swimming Hall of Trelleborg Sommaren, The Summer or Ung man, Young Man granite 224 cm in height (1944), Lundby, Gothenburg Våren, The Spring bronze 125 cm in