Background
Öhrström grew up in Halmstad, where his father worked at the railroad.
Öhrström grew up in Halmstad, where his father worked at the railroad.
In 1932, in Paris, France. From 1932 to 1957, he worked two months per year at Orrefors Glasbruk in Småland. He often used the ariel technique, which he had invented together with the master Gustaf Bergkvist and the artist Vicke Lindstrand.
Later, he worked at Lindshammars Glasbruk, where he developed his sculptures to prisms of gemstone colors that played with light reflections and refractions in the glass.
This 130 tonnes heavy glass obelisk, Kristallvertikalaccent, is made from steel and covered with glass from Lindshammars Glasbruk and was inaugurated in 1974. The light source is four lamps inside the obelisk.
He was awarded the Prince Eugen Medal for sculpture in 1979.