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List Of Finnish Painters
An list of notable Painting, painters from Finland: A * Ilmari Aalto (1891–1934) * Fredrik Ahlstedt (1839–1901) * Immanuel Alm (1767–1809), painter primarily of altarpieces * Johan Alm (1728–1810), painter of primarily religious-themed works * Tor Arne (born 1934) * Helena Arnell (1697–1751), one of the first Finnish painters, and one of the few female artists B * Johan Backman (painter), Johan Backman (1706–1768) * Adolf von Becker (1831–1909) * Carl Bengts (1876–1934) * Jonas Bergman (1724–1810) * Gunnar Berndtson (1854–1895) * Elias Brenner (1647–1717) C * Margareta Capsia (1682–1759), first professional native female painter in Finland * Birger Carlstedt (1907–1975) * Alvar Cawén (1886–1935) * Fanny Churberg (1845–1892) * Marcus Collin (1882–1966) D * Elin Danielson-Gambogi (1861–1919) E * Albert Edelfelt (1854–1905) * Robert Wilhelm Ekman (1808–1873), teacher and painter of the Finnish romantic portraits * Samuel Elmgren (1771–18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. In art, the term ''painting ''describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, and even whole objects. Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture (as in gestural painting), narration (as in narrative art), and abstraction (as in abstract art). Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in still life and landscape painting), photographic, abstract, nar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Churberg
Fanny Churberg (12 December 1845, in Vaasa – 10 May 1892, in Helsinki) was a Finland, Finnish landscape painter. Biography Her father, Matias Churberg, was a doctor from a family of farmers and her mother Maria was the daughter of the vicar in Liperi parish, Nils Johan Perander. Fanny was the third of seven children. Four of her siblings died when they were young and so Fanny grew up with her two older brothers Torsten and . Fanny was proud of her Ostrobothnia (region), Ostrobothnian family and heritage and was planning along with her brothers on changing the surname to Kuurila according to the family's old estate. They never got around to it though. When Fanny was twelve her mother died and she had to take on large parts of the responsibility of being the matron of the house. Later on she got sent to a girls' school in Porvoo, but she returned to Vaasa when she was 17–18 years old. When she was 20 her father died. Fanny cared for him day and night during the last months of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Akseli Gallen-Kallela (26 April 1865 – 7 March 1931) was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the ''Kalevala'', the Finnish national epic. His work is considered a very important aspect of the Finnish national identity. He changed his name from Gallén to Gallen-Kallela in 1907. Life and career Early life Gallen-Kallela was born Axel Waldemar Gallén in Pori, Finland, in a Swedish-speaking family. His father Peter Gallén worked as police chief and lawyer. Gallen-Kallela was raised in Tyrvää. At the age of 11 he was sent to Helsinki to study at a grammar school, because his father opposed his ambition to become a painter. After his father's death in 1879, Gallen-Kallela attended drawing classes at the Finnish Art Society (1881–1884) and studied privately under Adolf von Becker. Paris In 1884 he moved to Paris, to study at the Académie Julian. In Paris he became friends with the Finnish painter Albert Edelfelt, the Norwegian painter Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Gallenius
Lars Gallenius (circa 1658 Oulu – 25 March 1753 Jakobstad) was a Finnish painter. He was the first "free art person" in Finland. He received the bourgeois rights of the city of Oulu for painting in 1688. He primarily painted religious-themed murals and altarpieces for churches, and traveled the country looking for work. He executed wooden paintings for the Tornio church in 1684, the Hailuoto church in 1690, altarpieces for the Sotkamo church in 1719, wood paintings for the Haapajärvi Haapajärvi is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Oulu and is part of the Northern Ostrobothnia region. The town has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . Neig ... church in 1747. Gallenius married Catharina Lundinus in 1690, and they had a son James. He died in Jakobstad. References 17th-century Finnish painters 18th-century Finnish painters 18th-century male artists Finnish male painters People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Frosterus-Såltin
Alexandra Theodora Frosterus-Såltin (6 December 1837, Ingå – 29 February 1916, Vaasa) was a Finnish-Swedish genre painter and illustrator, who is also known for her altarpieces. Biography Her father, Benjamin, was a theology professor and her mother, Vilhelmina, was Finland's first female graduate student. Her mother died when he was seven, and her father remarried in 1846. Most of her childhood was spent in Vaasa, where her father was a church official. At the age of fourteen, she left home to become a private student of Robert Wilhelm Ekman in Turku, and studied with him for five years.Biographical notes @ Kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli. In 1858, on Ekman's recommendation, she was asked to provide drawings for a publication of the Raittiuden Seuran ( |
Hanna Frosterus-Segerstråle
Hanna Frosterus-Segerstråle (23 October 1867 in Helsinki – 9 April 1946 in Porvoo) was a Finnish artist and writer. She is best known for paintings portraying intimate family life, and for portraits. Life Hanna Frosterus-Segerstråle was born Johanna Wilhelmina Frosterus in a Swedish-speaking Finnish family. Her brother was geologist Benjamin Frosterus. She started studying art for Maria Wiik and at art school in Helsinki 1883–1887. She then continued her studies in Paris, in 1888 at Académie Colarossi under the tutelage of Gustave Courtois, Raphaël Collin and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. After having returned to Finland and there married her husband, future teacher of theology Albert Segerstråle, the couple again went to Paris in 1889. She continued her art studies at Académie Julian and elsewhere. The couple thereafter returned to Finland and Hanna Frosterus-Segerstråle would spend the most of the rest of her life in Porvoo and in the family summer house in a villag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustaf Wilhelm Finnberg
Gustaf Wilhelm Finnberg (21 November 1784 – 28 June 1833) was a Finnish painter. Biography Finnberg was born in Pargas to sailor Johan Finnberg and Sophia Stenroos. In 1800 he left for Turku to apprentice as a painter there, and in 1805 he graduated as a journeyman painter, with his graduation work being a portrait of a man drawn with Sanguine, red chalk. He spent the years 1806 he left to Stockholm to study at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. From the recommendation of Louis Masreliez he was immediately accepted to the higher courses. Although he had success in his studies, he never officially graduated. After 1814 he is no longer in the registry of students, although in 1815 he still took part in a students' contest for the topic Diogenes and Alexander, Alexander visits Diogenes and won first prize. While his primary interest was historical paintings, he made his living through painting portraits. He also executed some miniatures and landscape works. He possibly faced more d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauri Favén
Professor Mauri Oskari Favén (26 August 1920 – 23 February 2006) was a Finnish painter. His uncle was the painter Antti Favén and his grandfather's brother was the painter Aukusti Uotila. Biography Favén was born in Tampere. In the 1940s, he studied at the Free Arts School of Finland and the Finnish Academy of Arts. He made his debut as a painter in Helsinki in 1947, and this started his long career. Favén's works have been shown in numerous Finnish and foreign exhibitions, both private and group exhibitions. In 1970, Favén received the Pro Finlandia prize, and in 1989 he was granted the title of Professor. From 1986 onwards, he was on an artist's retirement grant, paid by the Finnish state. He died in Helsinki. Works Some of Favén's works are presented at the Kiasma ) , established = (Museum of Contemporary Art) (opening of Kiasma building) , dissolved = , location = Helsinki, Finland , type = Art museum , accred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cris Af Enehielm
Cristina Marianne (Cris) af Enehielm (born March 24, 1954, Helsinki) is a Finnish artist. Af Enehielm graduated as a visual artist from Fria konstskolan in Helsinki in 1977, and as an actress from the Theatre Academy in Helsinki in 1981. She is the mother of two sons: Andreas and Theodore. Af Enehielm has worked as an actress in radio, television and film, as a visual artist, performance artist, singer, director, costume designer, set designer, educator and lecturer, and as teacher in acting at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki. She has also participated in a number of dance productions. She has worked at the Raivoisat Ruusut (Raging Roses) theatre, Swedish Theatre, Klockriketeatern and the Lilla teatern in Helsinki, Wasa Teater, Printing Theatre in Karis, the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2004, she directed a play at the Bellman's Festival. She has had several solo exhibitions, in Gallerie Pelin, Gallerie Anhava, Gallerie Forsblom, and Titanik Gallerie in Helsin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnus Enckell
Knut Magnus Enckell (9 November 1870 in Hamina – 27 November 1925 in Stockholm) was a Finnish symbolist painter. At first he painted with a subdued palette, but from 1902 onwards used increasingly bright colors. He was a leading member of the ''Septem'' group of colorist painters. In Finland, Enckell is considered to have been a very influential symbolist artist. Biography Knut Magnus Enckell was born on 9 November 1870 in Hamina, a small town in eastern Finland, the son of Carl Enckell, a priest, and Alexandra Enckell (born Appelberg). He was the youngest of six sons. His native language was Finland’s Swedish. In 1889, at the age of 19, he began his artistic studies in Helsinki, at the drawing school of the Finnish Art Society, but he dropped out and continued his studies privately under Gunnar Berndtson. Naturalism was the established style during his education in Helsinki 1889–1891. In 1891 he went to Paris for the first time, where he became a student of Jules- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Elmgren
Samuel Elmgren (1771–1834) was a Finnish painter. Elmgren was born in Turku. He was commissioned to primarily paint religious-themed murals and altarpieces for churches. Between 1830 and 1832 he painted the church of Ilomantsi with one hundred angels, a number of bible characters and stories, and also the altarpiece. His works also include altar paintings and decorations for the Leppävirta church, and the altarpiece for the Kiihtelysvaara wooden church in 1831. He died at Ilomantsi Ilomantsi ( krl, Il'manči or Ilomančči, sv, Ilomants) is municipality and a village of Finland. It is located in the North Karelia region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population densi ... in 1834. References * Heikki Hanka, a hundred angel's church, Ilomantsi image of the Church for two centuries, Minerva 2003 1771 births 1834 deaths 18th-century Finnish painters 18th-century male artists Finnish male painters 19th-century Fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Wilhelm Ekman
Robert Wilhelm Ekman (August 13, 1808 – February 19, 1873), R. W. Ekman, was a significant teacher and painter of the Finnish romantic portraits and early national romanticism. Childhood and Arts Education Robert Ekman was born in Uusikaupunki, Finland to an upper-class family. His father was , a medical doctor and a mayor, and his mother was Sara Elisabet (maiden name Gadolin). Both of his parents died when he was approximately 10 years old. They left behind five orphans who were placed in foster homes. Their schooling was incomplete and there was no chance of higher academic education. Robert Ekman first studied art under the guidance of Finnish painter Gustaf Wilhelm Finnberg (1784–1833), but in 1824 together with his brother Fredric, Joachim begun studies at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm and later studied in the studio of Johan Gustaf Sandberg (1782–1854). Already as a student Ekman specialized in portraying the life of the common people, instead of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
