Svenerik Jakobsson

Title: You first?
Technique: Own print
Edition: EA
Dimensions: 32.5 x 43.5 cm

Svenerik Jakobsson was born in Åre in 1934. He lives and works in Stockholm. Svenerik was educated at Konstfack in Stockholm from 1953 to 1958. He has held about 80 solo exhibitions at galleries, art halls, and museums in Sweden and internationally.

Svenerik's sources of inspiration are mainly animals and nature. He has participated in expeditions to Antarctica and the Arctic, and has been to Greenland many times where he also worked as a printmaking teacher at the art school in Nuuk. In connection with the International Polar Year 2007-2008, Polar Year stamps were issued. As a model for one of Sweden's contributions, Svenerik's etching: "Stone Fragment Snow Hill I," which he created during the Antarctica expedition in 1989, was chosen.