Editing Per Hasselberg (section)

=== Farfadern (Father’s Father, Paris 1886) ===
The original French name was ''L'Aiëul'' (The Grandfather) and it was first made in plaster cast 1886 in Paris and exhibited at the [[Palais de l'Industrie]] that year. The basic idea was to show nature's cycle containing the poles of young and old. It had its origin during Hasselberg's long treatment at university hospital in [[Gothenburg]] in 1885, after which he learned that he had only a few more years to live. He knew, therefore, that the planned work might be his last one and thus his artistic testament.

The idea became more definitive after he had seen an old man sitting with a naked sleeping boy on his knees on a boulevard in Paris. When it was finished, his artist friends were enthusiastic about it, but the exhibition in Paris was no success.<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=143–145}}</ref>

The original copies in plaster cast by Hasselberg are lost, but a copy in bronze was placed near the [[National Library of Sweden]] in Stockholm 1896, and a copy in marble also from 1896 is today in the [[Gothenburg Museum of Art]].<ref>{{cite book | last=Gunnarsson et al (eds) | first=Annika | title=Per Hasselberg: Waldemarsuddes utställningskatalog | publisher=Arena/Åmells Artbooks Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde | publication-place=Malmö Stockholm | year=2010 | isbn=978-91-7843-325-4 | oclc=656365821 | page=114 and 120}}</ref>

[[File:Per Hasselberg Grodan Rottneros Park.jpg|thumb|''Grodan'' in Rottneros Park near [[Sunne, Sweden|Sunne]] in [[Värmland]], cast in bronze 1957.]]