MANUSCRIPTS; LETTERS; PRINTED SMALL PRINTS, DRAWINGS and PHOTOGRAPHS, associated with the Hedberg family in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a Bible from 1863, a cover sheet with handwritten text from 1861 by Peter Wieselgren.

Mounting paper approx. 36x23 cm

Hedberg is the surname of a family with an interesting composition of cultural personalities active in the 19th and 20th centuries. The first more prominent person in the family is the writer and actor Frans Hedberg (1828-1908) enormously prolific mainly as a playwright. Frans was married to actress Amanda Broman and in their children's family the artistic vein continues. Mix
These include the writer and playwright Tor Hedberg (1862-1931) who was, among other things, director of drama and curator at Thielska Galleriet. A brother of him was the artist Bengt Hedberg and a sister the translator Walborg Hedberg. The business community is also represented in the family in the form of the company leader Nils Hedberg and his son Sven, who was an engineer. This theme auction contains items inherited from different parts of the family, some of them all the way from Frans Hedberg who is the great-grandfather of Jan Hedberg whose items are sold here as “Hedbergiana”.