Haaken Gulleson was a Swedish painter and workshop leader in the early 1500s. His signature is found on six sculptures in southern Norrland

Norrland

Norrland is one of the three lands of Sweden , the northern part, consisting of nine provinces. The term Norrland is not used for any administrative purpose, but it is common in everyday language, e.g...

. He has long been considered to be solely a sculptor, but recent research has seen him as a painter. He didn't work alone but ran a workshop where his apprentices contributed to his work.

Biography

He lived in Enånger

Enånger

Enånger is a locality situated in Hudiksvall Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden with 652 inhabitants in 2005.Enånger Court District, or Enångers tingslag, was a district of Hälsingland in Sweden. The provinces in Norrland were never divided into hundreds and instead the court district served...

 parish. His sculpture is in Enånger

Enånger

Enånger is a locality situated in Hudiksvall Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden with 652 inhabitants in 2005.Enånger Court District, or Enångers tingslag, was a district of Hälsingland in Sweden. The provinces in Norrland were never divided into hundreds and instead the court district served...

 old church and is signed and dated in the year 1520. Another sculpture is a small Madonna image in the Bollnä church. A signed Madonna is in Forsa church and there is an altar screen in Njutånger

Njutånger

Njutånger is a locality situated in Hudiksvall Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden with 879 inhabitants in 2005....

 church. There is one in Bjuråker church and the museum in Hälsingland

Hälsingland

' is a historical province or landskap in central Sweden. It borders to Gästrikland, Dalarna, Härjedalen, Medelpad and to the Gulf of Bothnia...

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