unbelievable, – but I shall explain it

Ström as well as the painters Werenskiold and Holmboe

will remember the circumstances surrounding most of it

The first time, I was nominated for the “government

grant”, I had just prior to it received a

small grant in the amount of approx. 300 Kr. from “the Finne endowment”

and there was said to be a rigorous provision in

Norwegian law stating that anyone, who has received public

funding, cannot ~~can not~~ receive any grant

during the same year, – so I of course

did not receive the government grant that year.

The second time, that I was nominated for

the government grant, – I had – as the youngest

member of “group I” – participated in the

first (“collective”) Norwegian exhibition, which

“the elite” among Norwegian painters held in

Denmark (“The Charlottenborg exhibition”); and

I received my very generous share of the honour

bestowed upon the Norwegian painters -{...}

(Incidentally I only had expenses associated with that

exhibition, since the organisers of “Group I” only

“borrowed” (at my expense) 10 paintings among

my previously sold works, which of

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