Editing Per Hasselberg (section)

== Biography ==
Hasselberg was born 1 January 1850 in the small village Hasselstad near [[Ronneby]] in the province of [[Blekinge]] in the south of Sweden.

He grew up as the sixth child in a poor family. His very religious father, Åke Andersson, was a small farmer, a construction worker for bridges, and a cabinet-maker.

Hasselberg finished school at the age of twelve and became a carpenter apprentice in [[Karlshamn]], where he even got a training as ornamental sculptor. After this, he moved to Stockholm in 1869, where he took several jobs as ornamental sculptor and visited evening and weekend courses at craft school.

In 1876, he got a scholarship from the Swedish [[National Board of Trade (Sweden)|National Board of Trade]] to travel to Paris, where he was accepted at the [[École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts]] the following year. There, he studied for three years under the sculptor and academy professor [[François Jouffroy]]. He then worked as sculptor in Paris until 1890, when he returned to Stockholm to open a studio in [[Östermalm]].

In 1885, he was taken in at the [[Sahlgrenska University Hospital]] in [[Gothenburg]] because of [[aortic dissection]]. He recovered, but doctors told him he had only a few years to live.<ref>[https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=12632&forceOrdinarySite=true#Arkivuppgifter Lennart Wærn: ''Petter (Per) Hasselberg, Skulptör'', Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon, Riksarkivet].</ref>

In 1894, his condition became serious again and he died 25 July in Stockholm at the hospital [[Sophiahemmet]].<ref name="Torell 2007 p.">{{cite book | last=Torell | first=Ulf | title=Per Hasselberg: den nakna sensualismens skulptör | publisher=Ronneby hembygdsförening | publication-place=Ronneby | year=2007 | isbn=978-91-975092-3-7 | oclc=192057192 | language=sv | pages=14–25; 226; 283}}</ref>

At the time of his death, he had no debts and a book of orders of a total sum of about 30.000 Swedish Crowns,<ref>{{cite book | last=Torell | first=Ulf | title=Per Hasselberg: den nakna sensualismens skulptör | publisher=Ronneby hembygdsförening | publication-place=Ronneby | year=2007 | isbn=978-91-975092-3-7 | oclc=192057192 | language=sv | pages=271–286}}</ref> which is equivalent to about 250.000 [[United States dollar|US-Dollar]] in 2015.<ref>[http://www.historicalstatistics.org/Currencyconverter.html Historical currency converter, by Rodney Edvinsson, associate professor, Stockholm University].</ref> His will was that the large marble blocks, which were being shipped from Italy and which were destined for large copies of ''Farfadern'' and ''Näckrosen'', should be handed over to his sculptor colleague [[Christian Eriksson]] to do the assignment, which he also did.<ref>[https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=12632&forceOrdinarySite=true#Arkivuppgifter Lennart Wærn: ''Petter (Per) Hasselberg, Skulptör'', Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon, Riksarkivet].</ref>