Verner von Heidenstam

Verner von Heidenstam, born on 6 July 1859 in Olshammar, in Närke, studied painting in Rome and then in Paris, in Gérôme's studio, and travelled at length in Italy, Greece, the East and Africa. Back in Sweden, he published in 1888 a first collection that broke with naturalism and became the leading figure of the generation of the 1890s. Married three times, a member of the Swedish Academy from 1912, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1916, he settled in 1925 at Övralid, the house he had designed on the shore of Lake Vättern, and died there on 20 May 1940.

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• Short storiesThe Charles MenKarolinernaVerner von Heidenstam · 1898LiteraturePublic domain