OLLE HANSPERS (Enviken, Dalarna, 1923-2012). Two farm motifs, “Gårdar i övre Gärdsjö” and “Roslagsgård”, copper engraving or dry-needle engraving.

“Farms in the upper Gärdsjö”, 1966, coppercut, signed and numbered in pencil Olle Hanspers 140/310. Motif of a farm collection in Övre Gärdsjö village in Rättvik, with village road through landscape with horse stumps and haystacks.
Plate dimensions approx. 16.8x37.2 cm.
Frame dimensions approx. 33x53 cm.

“Roslagsgård”, 1950, dry needle, signed in plate HANSPERS and signed and numbered in pencil Olle Hanspers 1/150. Motif of Berga farm in Danderyd.
Plate dimensions approx. 8x30.2 cm.
Frame dimensions approx. 26x46 cm.

LITERATURE
Farms in Upper Gärdsjö: Rothlind nr 239.
Roslagsgård: Rothlind nr 29.

Olle Hanspers (Falun, 1923-2012)
Eminent Swedish graphic artist and artist, whose work was characterized by technical skill and a strong sense of the poetic in the everyday. Educated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, he early developed a fondness for the classical copper graphics, especially etching and dry needling.

With a peculiar sense of light, surface and composition, he created works that often moved in the borderland between the abstract and the figurative.

His subjects often move in a low-key landscape, where architecture, fragments of nature and silences interplay. The compositions balance the precise with the dreamy, often with an almost meditative mood.

Hansper's works are represented in, among others, the Moderna Museet, the National Museum and several regional museums, and he has exhibited extensively both in Sweden and abroad.

Olle Hanspers is regarded as one of Sweden's foremost graphic artists in the second half of the 20th century with his care for the craft.