The lekskulptur Tufsen by Egon Møller-Nielsen

Tufsen, also known as Tuffsen, is a lekskulptur in the art of Egon Møller-Nielsen. It was set up in 1949 in Parkleken Humlan in Humlegården in Stockholm and was the first lekskulptur. Tufsen stands at two meters high and weighs nearly seven tonnes. It was made in collaboration between Møller-Nielsen and Stockholm's city park director Holger Blom.

The name Tufsen was given by Mona, the daughter of Møller-Nielsen and Birgit Åkesson. Tufsen is made of stengöt, concrete mixed with marble chips. Møller-Nielsen also made the well-known 20 ton stengötlekskulpturen Ägget in 1950. A third lekskulptur in the same material, Snäckan or Spiral, was made in 1951 in two copies for Stockholm's city, but both copies have later been worn so much that they have been removed.

Tufsen can be found at five places in Stockholm and in a few isolated examples in Örebro, Malmö, Göteborg and Lund. Another example of Tufsen also existed in Kristinehamn, but was destroyed in 2003.

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