Word: jutland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recently refused a substantial check for 15 paintings because he said it would raise his standard of living, so he simply gave the paintings away. He is indifferent to what the critics say, and dealers, who try to see him at his lonely house on the west coast of Jutland seldom get inside the door...
...Fear of Luxury. In 1958, Pedersen won a $1,000 prize, and with the money he bought himself and his wife his isolated house in Jutland. But he has never forgotten the poverty of his early days. For privacy's sake, he has no phone and no radio. But he is also compulsive about not becoming accustomed to even the most modest luxury. He refuses to subscribe to a newspaper, instead reads the copy in the public library...
Denmark's artistic genius has primarily been a household affair. Some 8,000 years before Christ, Danes were polishing and shaping bits of bone and amber into small beasts and birds to be used as both ornaments and currency. Six thousand years later, the farmers of Jutland and Zealand were fashioning bowls and beakers as sophisticated as any found anywhere in Europe. In time, bronze, silver and gold objects appeared: the viking bracelets and necklaces on display at the Met could have been the work of the finest goldsmiths...