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^-------------------------............. -J———— daring. After enduring
^HfHHR IBBI great privations in youth.
he married a young Danish
BL IB woman, and settled at Lilla
JHjHHHl Backa in the South of
Sweden, a lake district of
singular charm. In this
secluded spot of brief
summers and long winters
HF -i f} —where neither post office
nor daily papers remind
one of the doubtful bless-
ings of civilization—Dup-
horn lived a life of simple
pleasures and abstemious
habits. No meat of any
kind ever adorned the
rough oaken dinner table
of this family of keen
HhhHHHHHHHIHHHMHHHB^IHBhHhHHIHHH
subsist on fruit and vege-
LANDSCAPE BY HUGO DUPHORN home.baked ^
and oatmeal. Here he
It was with a sense of deep sorrow that news of hoped to find peace and truth and to gather about
the death of Hugo Duphorn reached his friends at him a little colony of kindred spirits. Such hope
home. This young landscapist, of whose work proved, however, to be short-lived. On a mild day
two examples are here given, was born at Eisenach, last spring, he was on the ice with his little son,
and had barely attained an artistic independence Balder, when it gave way and both were drowned,
in his 33rd year, when he fell a sacrifice to his Duphorn was for a time a disciple or Professor
"LAKE LILLA BACKA, SWEDEN "
FROM A PENCIL SKETCH BY HUGO DUPHORN
75
^-------------------------............. -J———— daring. After enduring
^HfHHR IBBI great privations in youth.
he married a young Danish
BL IB woman, and settled at Lilla
JHjHHHl Backa in the South of
Sweden, a lake district of
singular charm. In this
secluded spot of brief
summers and long winters
HF -i f} —where neither post office
nor daily papers remind
one of the doubtful bless-
ings of civilization—Dup-
horn lived a life of simple
pleasures and abstemious
habits. No meat of any
kind ever adorned the
rough oaken dinner table
of this family of keen
HhhHHHHHHHIHHHMHHHB^IHBhHhHHIHHH
subsist on fruit and vege-
LANDSCAPE BY HUGO DUPHORN home.baked ^
and oatmeal. Here he
It was with a sense of deep sorrow that news of hoped to find peace and truth and to gather about
the death of Hugo Duphorn reached his friends at him a little colony of kindred spirits. Such hope
home. This young landscapist, of whose work proved, however, to be short-lived. On a mild day
two examples are here given, was born at Eisenach, last spring, he was on the ice with his little son,
and had barely attained an artistic independence Balder, when it gave way and both were drowned,
in his 33rd year, when he fell a sacrifice to his Duphorn was for a time a disciple or Professor
"LAKE LILLA BACKA, SWEDEN "
FROM A PENCIL SKETCH BY HUGO DUPHORN
75