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Johan Knutson
Johan Knutson (28 September 1816, Allerum - 13 September 1899, Helsinki) was a Swedish-born Finnish landscape painter. Life and work He studied in Copenhagen in 1838, then in the lithography department at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts from 1839 to 1840. Upon graduating, at the age of twenty-four, he moved to Finland. There, he became a member of the (Artists' Assoaciation} and taught drawing at a school in Porvoo from 1844 to 1890. There, he became a friend of Johan Ludvig Runeberg, and was influenced by his poetry. In the early 1840s, he depicted street life in Helsinki in humorous graphic sheets, the continued publication of which was, however, banned by the Police Commissioner. From 1845 to 1852, he was involved in illustrating ''Finland framstäldt i teckningar'' (Finland Depicted in Drawings), with text by Zachris Topelius. He created a total of 48 landscape images for the book. His drawings were also included in several booklets, known collectively as ''En resa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Knutson
Johan Knutson (28 September 1816, Allerum - 13 September 1899, Helsinki) was a Swedish-born Finnish landscape painter. Life and work He studied in Copenhagen in 1838, then in the lithography department at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts from 1839 to 1840. Upon graduating, at the age of twenty-four, he moved to Finland. There, he became a member of the (Artists' Assoaciation} and taught drawing at a school in Porvoo from 1844 to 1890. There, he became a friend of Johan Ludvig Runeberg, and was influenced by his poetry. In the early 1840s, he depicted street life in Helsinki in humorous graphic sheets, the continued publication of which was, however, banned by the Police Commissioner. From 1845 to 1852, he was involved in illustrating ''Finland framstäldt i teckningar'' (Finland Depicted in Drawings), with text by Zachris Topelius. He created a total of 48 landscape images for the book. His drawings were also included in several booklets, known collectively as ''En resa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helsinki City Museum
Helsinki City Museum ( fi, Helsingin kaupunginmuseo, sv, Helsingfors stadsmuseum) is a museum in Helsinki that documents and displays the history of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Its mission is to record and uphold Helsinki's spiritual, material and architectural heritage. The museum features personal memories and everyday life of the city's residents. It also acts as the regional museum for central Uusimaa with a mission to promote and steer museum activities in the region. Helsinki City Museum is located next to the Senate Square in the oldest blocks of the city. It also operates four other museums around Helsinki: Villa Hakasalmi, Burgher's House, Worker Housing Museum and Tram Museum. Entrance to all museums is free of charge. The museum's collections contain about one million photos, for instance popular photos of early 20th century Helsinki by Signe Brander Signe Viola Brander (15 April 1869 – 17 May 1942) was a Finnish photographer. She is best known for documen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Lithographers
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Landscape Painters
A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the physical elements of geophysically defined landforms such as (ice-capped) mountains, hills, water bodies such as rivers, lakes, ponds and the sea, living elements of land cover including indigenous vegetation, human elements including different forms of land use, buildings, and structures, and transitory elements such as lighting and weather conditions. Combining both their physical origins and the cultural overlay of human presence, often created over millennia, landscapes reflect a living synthesis of people and place that is vital to local and national identity. The character of a landscape helps define the self-image of the people who inhabit it and a sense of place that differentiates one region from other regions. It is the dynamic b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Painters
Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also * Finish (other) * Finland (other) * Suomi (other) Suomi means ''Finland'' in Finnish. It may also refer to: *Finnish language * Suomi (surname) * Suomi, Minnesota, an unincorporated community * Suomi College, in Hancock, Michigan, now referred to as Finlandia University * Suomi Island, Western ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Painters
This is a list of notable Swedish visual artists. A *Emma Adbåge (born 1982), illustrator *Ottilia Adelborg (1855–1936), illustrator *Ulla Adlerfelt (1736–1765) * Sofia Adlersparre (1808–1862), painter *Mattias Adolfsson (born 1965), illustrator *Gösta Adrian-Nilsson GAN (1884–1965), painter *Ivan Aguéli (1869–1917), painter and writer * Märta Afzelius (1887–1961), textile artist * Sofia Ahlbom (1823–1868) * Lea Ahlborn (1829–1891), printmaker * Modhir Ahmed (born 1956), painter, printmaker * Margareta Alströmer (1763–1816), painter * Agneta Andersson (born 1958), sculptor * Christian Pontus Andersson (born 1977), sculptor * J. Tobias Anderson (born 1971) * Karin Mamma Andersson (born 1962), painter * Lena Anderson (born 1939), illustrator and children's writer * Oskar Andersson (1877–1906), cartoonist * Olof Arborelius (1842–1915), painter * Tage Åsén (born 1943), painter B * Barbro Bäckström (1939–1990), sculptor * Inge Bagge (1916–1988) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1899 Deaths
Events January 1899 * January 1 ** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. ** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City. * January 2 – ** Bolivia sets up a customs office in Puerto Alonso, leading to the Brazilian settlers there to declare the Republic of Acre in a revolt against Bolivian authorities. **The first part of the Jakarta Kota–Anyer Kidul railway on the island of Java is opened between Batavia Zuid ( Jakarta Kota) and Tangerang. * January 3 – Hungarian Prime Minister DezsÅ‘ Bánffy fights an inconclusive duel with his bitter enemy in parliament, Horánszky Nándor. * January 4 – **U.S. President William McKinley's declaration of December 21, 1898, proclaiming a policy of benevolent assimilation of the Philippines as a United States territory, is announced in Manila by the U.S. commander, General Elwell Otis, and angers independence activists who had fought agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1816 Births
This year was known as the ''Year Without a Summer'', because of low temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere, possibly the result of the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption in Indonesia in 1815, causing severe global cooling, catastrophic in some locations. Events January–March * December 25 1815–January 6 – Tsar Alexander I of Russia signs an order, expelling the Jesuits from St. Petersburg and Moscow. * January 9 – Sir Humphry Davy's Davy lamp is first tested underground as a coal mining safety lamp, at Hebburn Colliery in northeast England. * January 17 – Fire nearly destroys the city of St. John's, Newfoundland. * February 10 – Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, dies and is succeeded by Friedrich Wilhelm, his son and founder of the House of Glücksburg. * February 20 – Gioachino Rossini's opera buffa ''The Barber of Seville'' premières at the Teatro Argentina in Rome. * March 1 – The Gork ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish National Gallery
Finnish National Gallery ( fi, Suomen Kansallisgalleria, sv, Finlands Nationalgalleri) is the largest art museum institution of Finland. It consists of the Ateneum, an art museum; Kiasma, a contemporary art museum; and the Sinebrychoff Art Museum, a historic house and art museum. The organization's functions are supported by the conservation department, the administration and services department and Kehys, the art museum development department. History On January 27, 1846, the Finnish Art Society was established. In 1848, it established the Helsinki Drawing School and in 1852, the organization took over Turku Drawing School. In the 19th-century, the organization's collections grew through donations. In 1893, , , and Karl Emanuel Jannsson made significant contributions to the organization. The Ateneum building was completed in the spring of 1887 and the Finnish Art Society's operations were moved there. In 1921, Paul and Fanny Sinebrychoff donated approximately 900 works t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Museum Of Finland
The National Museum of Finland ( fi, Kansallismuseo, sv, Nationalmuseum) presents Finnish history from the Stone Age to the present day, through objects and cultural history. The Finnish National Romantic style building is located in central Helsinki and is a part of the Finnish Heritage Agency (until 2018 the National Board of Antiquities) ( fi, Museovirasto, sv, Museiverket), under the Ministry of Culture and Education. Building The building of the National Museum was designed by the architect company Gesellius, Lindgren, Saarinen. The appearance of the building reflects Finland's medieval churches and castles. The architecture belongs to national romanticism and the interior mainly to art nouveau. The museum was built from 1905 to 1910 and opened to the public in 1916. The museum was named the Finnish National Museum after Finland's independence in 1917. After the last thorough renovation, the Museum was re-opened in July 2000. The museum's entrance hall ceiling has c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porvoo Town Hall
The Porvoo Town Hall (or the Porvoo Rathaus; fi, Porvoon raatihuone; sv, Borgå rådhus) is a former town hall and current museum in Porvoo, Finland. It is located in the old town of Porvoo, in the immediate vicinity of the market square. Porvoo Town Hall is the oldest town hall building in Finland, as the first written mention of the older Porvoo Town Hall dates back to 1545. The main contractor of the current town hall was Gabriel Hagert (1706–1774), the Mayor of Porvoo, who received financial support from the parliament and the Nyland Brigade for construction work. The building was designed by master builder Gotthard Flensborg (1723–1803). It was built between 1762 and 1764 and was mainly built between 1763 and 1764. The town hall was commissioned no later than the autumn of 1764. Its wooden bell tower was completed in 1771. The building represents Hårlemanian Baroque classicism. It is two-floor, brick and with an attic roof. The foundations of the building have n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cygnaeus Gallery
The Cygnaeus Gallery ( fi, Cygnaeuksen galleria, sv, Cygnaei galleri) is an art gallery in Helsinki. The art gallery was founded by the professor of aesthetics Fredrik Cygnaeus. It was built as a villa in 1869–1870 to designs by architect J.F.W. Mieritz. Cygnaeus donated the gallery to the Finnish nation in his testament. It opened to the public in 1882, and is today owned by the Finnish Heritage Agency. It has been claimed to be the oldest still operating art museum in Finland. The gallery contains mainly Finnish art from the 19th century, 200 works in total. Among artists represented are Albert Edelfelt, the Von Wright brothers, Fanny Churberg and Helene Schjerfbeck Helena Sofia (Helene) Schjerfbeck (; July 10, 1862 – January 23, 1946) was a Finnish painter. A modernist painter, she is known for her realist works and self-portraits, and also for her landscapes and still lifes. Throughout her long life, he .... Apart from the permanent collections the museum also hosts t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
