Sculpture Honours

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 80, 5 April 1938, Page 11

Sculpture Honours

NORWEGIAN EX-HOUSEMAID. OSLO, NORWAY. Miss Anne Grimdalen, former housemaid, whose statue of King Harald Haardraade has been selected for the new city hall at Oslo, was honoured, and she told the astonishing story of her rise to fame. Only last year a former Finnish housemaid, Sully Salminen surprised tho world by writing a best-seller, “Karlrina. ” Miss Grhndaleu told how she had left a shepherd’s home in North Norway with the equivalent of £3 and had taken a domestic job in Oslo, which she reached afoot. There, after seeing works of art for the first time, she found she could paint flowers and she spent her spare time in the Art Academy. Finally, giving up her job, she lived for several years on the little money that fellow-students paid her for preparing their coffee. Then sales of her pictures enabled her to visit Rome, where, again taking a domestic job, she studied sculpturo. Her student days in Greece were spent in the same fashion, although at that time she acted as a nursemaid in exchange for her lodgiug. And so back to Oslo, where further hard work brought her an outstanding reward.