Sweden
Carl Larsson-gården in Sundborn in Dalarna is in a financial crisis and can get hard to keep open. A person suspected of embezzling money from the fund. – It is about millions of dollars, ” says the association’s president to HH.
master bedroom on the Carl Larsson-gården, Sundborn. The family association that runs the museum has been affected by the embezzlement in the millions. Arkivbild.
The well-known konstnärsgården in Sundborn is run by Carl and Karin Larsson family association and the face of a regular meeting of the board last Saturday, it was revealed that a large sum of money was missing. The event has polisanmälts.
“We are all very distraught and disappointed,” says Oskar Nordström Skans, the association’s president.
All of the association are descendants of Carl and Karin Larsson.
– There is a person who we have had the confidence for that used our money for something other than the farm operation. So the money is gone.
How much it is if he does not want to say.
The police investigation show. But it is about millions of dollars in each case.
According to sources to P4 Dalarna has almost four million crowns disappeared and the suspected fraud has done to the ongoing operation of the farm has been solved with the borrowed money, reports the channel. The museum has yearly revenue from the entrances and sales in the store at around seven million.
” We estimate that we will be able to continue most of its operations. But it is a big challenge to get the money for the farm operation, ” says Oskar Nordström Skans.
the Farm was the home of the artist Carl Larsson and his wife Karin Larsson, and their eight children. Life on the farm in Sundborn was a constantly recurring theme in the artist’s paintings and many swedes have made acquaintance with the house and its interior as well as the garden, in paintings such as “Breakfast under the big birch”, “Blomsteridyll”, “Studio idyll”. Around 30 000 people visit the farm each year.
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