Statue of Hjalmar Söderberg

The bronze statue of Hjalmar Söderberg (1869–1941) is a full-length portrait sculpture located in Humlegården, the public park in the Östermalm district of Stockholm. The statue depicts the celebrated Swedish author in the characteristic dress of his era — a frock coat (bonjour), walking cane, and red gloves — capturing the refined, flaneur spirit so central to both his life and literary work. The sculpture was commissioned under the supervision of the Swedish National Heritage Board (Riksantikvarieämbetet) and placed on land owned by the Swedish state but administered by the Östermalm district council. The source for the sculptor's composition was a photograph of Söderberg taken at the Glyptotek in Copenhagen, the city where he spent the final decades of his life. The statue pays tribute to one of Sweden's most beloved writers, best known for his novel Doktor Glas (1905), whose melancholy, ironic prose offered an enduring portrait of Stockholm life at the turn of the 20th century.