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Sven Wallander, the head of HSB, commissioned the sculpture after he had seen the glass sculpture Prisma by Vicke Lindstrand in Norrköping. HSB donated Grön eld to Umeå Municipality, which paid for the foundation.Lennart Johansson, who assembled the sculpture in 1970, told the press in December 2013 that he had hidden an image of Mao Zedong in one of the glass flames of the sculpture.
Vicke Lindstrand HSB Sven Wallander Umeå Municipality Umeå Norrköping Mao Zedong