Mikael Wahrby

Title: The Water Castle
Technique: Etching
Edition: 50
Image dimensions: 33 x 47 cm
Paper dimensions: 47 x 59 cm

Mikael Wahrby was born in 1952 in Hägersten and he still lives and works there today. In the 1970s he was a student at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm, where he also worked as a lecturer in copper printing from1994 to 2010. Since the end of the 1970s, he has been active in his own copper printing workshop.

The Water Palace
When I was walking over the Vasa Bridge one spring day, I saw a building that seemed to float on the water. In the middle of central Stockholm there is a small, small island, an islet, called Strömsborg and is the city's smallest island. Here there was a restaurant, bathhouse and bowling alleys. The current building was rebuilt in 1923-1930 and the architect was then Ragnar Östberg.

A curved roof and a uniform color enhance the lightness of the elegant "Water Castle". On the left in the picture is Norstedt & Söner's book printing house, like a castle this building also rises out of the water, with a tower called the perch's tail.