A Soul Etched in the Danish Landscape The history of Scandinavian art finds one of its most profound and poignant voices in Laurits Andersen Ring. Born on August 15th, 1854, in the quiet village of Ring near southern Zealand, his very name carries the essence of the soil from which he emerged. The son of a wheelmaker and a farmer's daughter, Ring’s early life was steeped in the rhythms of rural Denmark—a world defined by craftsmanship…