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Hans Andersson
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Hans Andersson - known widely by the diminutive Hasse - was born on 19 June 1926 in Stockholm and died on 29 September 2003 in Skanör, the small coastal town on the Falsterbo peninsula in southernmost Sweden where he spent much of his later life. His art moved between two loyalties that never quite reconciled: the urban waterways and quaysides of the city where he was born, and the wide, flat bird-rich landscapes of western Scania.
He trained at Konstfackskolan (the School of Arts, Crafts and Design) in Stockholm from 1946 to 1949, then spent formative years from 1949 to 1951 on study trips to France, Italy, and England. The exposure to French graphic traditions in particular left a mark on his subsequent work in printmaking.
Andersson worked as a painter and graphic artist throughout his career, but it was lithography that became his primary medium for reaching a wide audience. He issued large numbered editions - characteristically 250 to 360 prints - of color lithographs depicting familiar Stockholm scenes: the steamboats and sailboats of Skeppsholmen, the grand facades along Strandvägen, the ferry traffic at Skeppsbron, quiet canal light at Lotsgatan on Södermalm. These were images of a city rendered with affection and legibility, aimed at buyers who recognized the places.
Alongside the Stockholm series he developed what became his most distinctive subject: geese. His repeated return to the motif - in flight, grazing, gathering at the water's edge in the coastal plains around Skanör - earned him the informal title "gåsamålaren" (the goose painter). He published these images in dedicated folders, including the Skansörsmapp series, which collected multiple goose studies in numbered editions of 250.
His work sold steadily through Swedish auction houses during his lifetime and continues to appear at auction today. The 15 lots tracked on Auctionist are concentrated at Gomér and Andersson Nyköping, which handled the majority of his appearances, with further results at Auktionshuset Kolonn and Bukowskis Stockholm. No final prices were recorded in these particular lots, but his prints remain in regular circulation in the Swedish secondary market.