"Anders Zorn was born the 18 February, 1860 at Mora, in Dalame, the son
of a brewer from Bavaria and a Dalecarlian woman. He was brought
up as a peasant boy on the banks of Lake Siljan, and when but a small
child gave evidence of his passion for art by carving wooden figures,
which he colored with berry juice.
At the age of fifteen he went to Stockholm. Though he first studied
sculpture at the Academy of Arts, it was as a watercolor painter that
he made his initial mark.& (showing 500 of 5723 characters). |
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