Hans Anders Krister Wigert, born October 8, 1932 in Karlskrona, died July 9, 2015 in Stavsnäs, was a Swedish painter and graphic artist.

He was the son of Major Carl-Gustaf Wigert and Elsa von Reis and from 1962 married to the ballet teacher Ann-Margret Louise Holmgren. Wigert became motherless shortly after birth and a nurse nursed him for three years while his father, who was a pilot, worked. He then grew up in Djursholm when his father worked for the air station Roslagen's air flotilla in Hägernäs. Due to difficulties with, among other things, dyslexia, drawing and sports came to dominate his youth.

Wigert studied for a short time at Konstfackskolan but interrupted his schooling to travel to Spain and pursue self-study. When he returned to Sweden, he studied art for Staffan Hallström at Gerlesborgsskolan in 1959 and drawing for Bror Marklund as well as painting for Evert Lundquist at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm 1959-1965. He also made study trips to France, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain. He has exhibited separately in Östersund and at Artoteket in Malmö and Galleri Prisma in Stockholm.

Together with Torsten Renqvist, Hans Wigert exhibited at De Ungas salong in Stockholm in 1965 and he participated in the graphics renal at the National Museum in 1965 and several Stockholm salons at Liljevalch's art gallery. He was awarded the Monica de Mayere Drawing Scholarship, a scholarship from the Sandrew Foundation, the H Ax: son Johnson Foundation in 1962, the City of Kiruna's Cultural Scholarship in 1966 and in the early 1960s he became the first recipient of Bror Marklund's Grundsunda Scholarship. Grundsunda also became his summer residence for artistic practice for 30 years.

He made himself known as one of the great contemporary nature painters in Sweden. Expressive and scarce, almost stylized, he engraved in drypoint or painted natural impressions and people, often large heads with brutally angular lines, which expressed both tenderness and tragedy. He was often associated with the nature of Norrland. He also performed portraits, model studies, figures and still lifes in a romantic-expressionist style with certain impulses from Evert Lundquist. Wigert is represented at, among others, the National Museum [1], the Modern Museum in Stockholm and the Kalmar Art Museum.

Awards
In 2004, Wigert was awarded the Prince Eugene Medal. In 2015, the Academy of Fine Arts awarded him the Egron Lundgren Medal in gold for a watercolor painter, the foremost honor awarded to a painter. [4]

Hans Wigert is regarded as one of the foremost natural romantic artists in Swedish contemporary art. He has also been of great importance to young artists such as Karin Mamma Andersson and Lars Lerin.

Early on, Grundsunda on the coast northeast of Örnsköldsvik in Ångermanland came to play a major role in the artist's life. Together with his wife Anne, they acquired a tavern there in 1966, right on Lake Preston. The house got a new life through them and they came to spend their summers there for over 30 years.

The surrounding nature with the lake, the marsh and the rocky coast are recurring motifs in his paintings.