Studio: international art (80.1920)

ANDERS ZORN: SOME PERSONAL
RECOLLECTIONS. 000

MORA, where Zorn was born and
died, is a little village by the shores
of Lake Siljan, in the heart of Dalecarlia,
which itself lies in the very heart of
Sweden. Hills surround the lake, and the
country for miles in all directions is
timber land, dotted with lakes, and inter-
sected by rivers. From Fuloberg, a hill
overlooking Lake Siljan, the eye can look
north and east for a hundred miles over
uninhabited forest; uninhabited, that is,
during the summer months, for in the
winter the lumber men go and live their
lonely lives among the giant firs. 0 0
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"SELF-PORTRAIT." BY
ANDERS ZORN

(Uffizi Gallery, Florence;
Photo. Rischgitz)

In this country, in the year i860, Zorn
was born. His father was a German and
employed in a brewery; his mother
(well known to all collectors of the etchings
as " Mona") was of old Dalecarlian
peasant stock. The boy first showed his
talent for drawing at school at Enkoping,
and when about fifteen years of age some
of his father's friends subscribed 400
kronor (£21) to enable him to attend
the Academy school at Stockholm. 0

Even in the 'seventies £21 would not
go far for a growing boy, but it sufficed
for the school fees, and he kept himself
in food by selling pencil portraits at 15s.
each. In later days he used to tell how
his mother reproached him when, after