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golden palette." |
"Fellow artists seemed to gravitate towards Birgit", Ingeborg writes in "De unge". The two artists at Ekeberg soon became the center of a creative environment. "It is great inspiration to know that other artists are working and creating along with you." |
Ingeborg describes how she has received inspiring "replies" from other artists, and adds: "In similar ways I have been able to respond to a few musicians and painters with my writing".
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This response was clearly appreciated by the painters, since they made her a "knight of the golden palette" - an informal proof of regard. With the honour came a verse, playing on Ingeborg's family name "Hagen" ("garden") and her admiration for the author Kinck:
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 Ingeborg is "knighted". |
better servant noone knows -
where she first for Kinck bends down,
everybody else follows"
