Knut Ekwall

In 1871, he married the opera singer, Johanna Maria Theresia Burkowitz-Pönitz (1851–1933), and decided to stay in Germany.

In 1876, they moved to Berlin, where he studied with the famous portrait and genre painter, Ludwig Knaus.

He also provided illustrations for the epic poem Frithiofs saga, translated by Esaias Tegnér.

He and Johanna returned to Sweden in 1885, with their seven children, and settled into a home he had designed himself, on the shores of Lake Sommen.

He had been lying in his bedroom, ill, for some time, but was rescued and taken to the nearby Romanäs sanatorium [sv].