Evert Taube - Personal Life

Personal Life

In 1925, he married Astri Bergman Taube, a painter and sculptress.

Taube had a summer house called Sjösala, located in Stavsnäs, which was burned down by Mona Wallén-Hjerpe in 1969.

Taube died in Stockholm and is buried on the graveyard of Maria Magdalena Church on Södermalm.

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