Elsa Beskow

Swedish artist (1874-1953).

Born February 11th, 1874 in Maria Magdalena parish. [ref]

Died June 30th, 1953 at 79 years old in Danderyd parish (cancer). [ref]

Occupations
artist, children's writer, illustrator, writer
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It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Ralph Waldo Emerson