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List Of Finnish Women Artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in Finland or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A * Eva Acke (1855–1929), painter * Nina Ahlstedt (1853–1907), painter *Eija-Liisa Ahtila (born 1959), photographer, video artist *Miina Äkkijyrkkä (born 1949), painter, sculptor * Helena Arnell (1697–1751), painter B * Heidi Blomstedt (1911–1982), ceramist *Elina Brotherus (born 1972), photographer and video artist * Rut Bryk (1916–1999), ceramist C *Margareta Capsia (1682–1759), painter * Fanny Churberg (1845–1892), landscape painter D * Elin Danielson-Gambogi (1861–1919), painter E *Anna Eriksson (born 1977), filmmaker F * Ellen Favorin (1853–1919), painter *Hilda Flodin (1877–1958), sculptor, etcher and painter *Alina Forsman (1845–1899), sculptor *Alexandra Frosterus-Såltin (1837–1916), painter, illustrator G * Viola Gråsten (1910–1994), textile designer H * Greta Hällfors-Sipilä (1899–1974), painter * Nanna Hänninen (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first inhabited around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period. The Stone Age introduced several differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viola Gråsten
Viola Hildegard Gråsten (born Viola Hildegard Forsberg) (18 November 1910 – 20 October 1994) was a Swedish textile designer. Gråsten was born in Keuruu in Häme, Finland and was brought up as a foster daughter by the Finnish Finance Minister, Ernst Gråsten. She studied for four years at the Central School of Crafts in Helsinki until 1936, after which she worked as a designer at the Friends of Finnish Handicraft The Friends of Finnish Handicraft ( fi, Suomen käsityön ystävät, sv, Finska handarbetets vänner) is a Finnish association for the promotion and creation of textile art. History and activity The association was founded in 1879 by Fanny Churber .... In 1944, because of wartime yarn shortages in Finland, she moved to Sweden and designed shaggy rugs for Textiles & Interiors in Stockholm. A year later she took a post at the NK Textile Studio, where she began to design patterns for textiles and made a reputation for her colourful geometric designs. In 1956 she bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rakel Liekki
Tiina-Rakel Liekki (born 20 September 1979 in Suonenjoki) is a Finnish artist, freelance journalist, writer, director and producer, and former pornographic actress. Career Liekki is one of the best-known Finnish adult filmmakers, and was dubbed "the apostle of porn" in an article by ''City''. In 2002, Liekki performed in ''Rakelin ja Lassin Panokoulu'' sex guidance videos together with Lassi Lindqvist as part of ''PornoStara'' television show on MoonTV channel. She had previously tested sex toys in the same show. She also worked for ATV on their ''Naked News'' and other adult oriented night shows. After that she worked as a producer for a Finnish digital television channel Sextv. Liekki also directed the porn film ''Rakel Liekki – Mun leffa''. Liekki retired from porn in 2005 and started hosting her own talk show ''Yö Rakelin kanssa'' (''Night with Rachel''). The talk show aired on Subtv television channel. She has since made guest appearances in other TV shows, such as '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaisa Leka
Kaisa Maria Leka (born October 25, 1978) is a Finnish comic artist and politician from Porvoo. Central themes in Leka's autobiographical comics are disability, politics and spiritual searching. Her comics figures are naïvistically simple animals, the most important of which is a mouse, representing Kaisa herself. Publications and other works Current career as an artist Kaisa Leka, works with graphic design as well as comics, mostly layout, for instance for a vegetarian cookbook put together by the Green party's presidential candidate for the 2006 election. Leka has also written a small book about India published by the Helsinki City Art Museum. Along with complete personal works Leka has worked for several magazines and done different smaller projects for a variety of clients. Leka also regularly teaches comics courses and workshops in many different schools. In 2012 she was given the Finnish Comics Society's Puupäähattu award, the most prestigious Finnish award for comic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gun Lanciai
Gun Lanciai (born Gunvor Westerberg on 10 November 1920 in Borgå, Finland; died 15 March 2013 in Helsingør, Denmark), was a Swedish-Finnish sculptor. She was also the illustrator of the Swedish-language school book '' Vi på Solgård'', for reading for the lower levels in Finland by the suggestion of her lifelong friend the writer Solveig von Schoultz. Gun Lanciai lived most of her life in Sweden (1955–2004), was a Finnish citizen until 1965, and from then on a Swedish citizen. Biography Lanciai made her first sculpture, a faun in clay at the age of 13 in 1934. She was accepted at the art academy of Ateneum in Helsingfors in 1939 for further education in sculpture and ceramics, which progress was interrupted by the Winter War. She married the half Italian Aurelio Lanciai in 1942, Finnish junior champion in tennis, and in 1952 moved with him and four children to San Isidro in Argentine, where she found a new teacher in the sculptor Esdras Gianella (1916–2010). At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinikka Kurkinen
Sinikka Mirjam Kurkinen (born 1935) is a Finnish painter. She studied in Helsinki and Paris. Kurkinen was born in Joutseno, South Karelia. She gave her first exhibitions in Imatra in 1955 and in Helsinki in 1958. Her works can be seen at Ateneum Ateneum is an art museum in Helsinki, Finland and one of the three museums forming the Finnish National Gallery. It is located in the centre of Helsinki on the south side of Rautatientori square close to Helsinki Central railway station. It has t ..., the Imatra Museum of Art and in various other locations all over the country. Kurkinen is an honorary member of the Imatra Art Association. She has won many awards during her career, including the Art Prize of Imatra in 1983. References External links CV(in Finnish) 1935 births Living people People from Lappeenranta 21st-century Finnish women artists 20th-century Finnish women artists Finnish women painters {{Finland-painter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meeri Koutaniemi
Meeri Koutaniemi (born 1987) is a Finnish photographer and journalist. Koutaniemi is known for her reportages and portraits on issues concerning human rights, minorities and empowerment. Biography Koutaniemi was born in Kuusamo. After comprehensive school, she moved from Kuusamo to Oulu to study theatre in upper secondary school. After living six months in Oulu she moved to Helsinki, where she studied music and dance at The Sibelius Upper Secondary School. She has studied photojournalism at The University of Tampere. Since 2011, Koutaniemi has been travelling and working around the world, such as in Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America. Koutaniemi is a founder member of an Italian Photo Agency Echo and Finnish Collective 11. Koutaniemi is partly of Romani descent, and according to a DNA test she took in 2018, she also has Central Asian and Eskimo ancestry. Acknowledgements and criticism Koutaniemi has won several awards in Annual Press Photo Competition by Finnish P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tove Jansson
Tove Marika Jansson (; 9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a Swedish-speaking population of Finland, Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Stockholm, Helsinki and Paris. Her first solo art exhibition was in 1943. At the same time, she was writing short stories and articles for publication, as well as creating the graphics for book covers and other purposes. She continued to work as an artist and a writer for the rest of her life. Jansson wrote the ''Moomins, Moomin'' books for children, starting in 1945 with ''The Moomins and the Great Flood''. The next two books, ''Comet in Moominland'' and ''Finn Family Moomintroll'', published in 1946 and 1948 respectively, were highly successful in sales, adding to sales of the first book. For her work as a children's writer she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1966. The Moomins also spun off to a comic strip, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuuli Hypén
Tuuli Hypén (born 1983, Turku) is a Finnish comics artist known especially for her ''Nanna'' comics. ''Nanna'' cartoons have been published in several albums and in newspapers such as '' Turun Sanomat'' and ''Helsingin Sanomat ''Helsingin Sanomat'', abbreviated ''HS'' and colloquially known as , is the largest subscription newspaper in Finland and the Nordic countries, owned by Sanoma. Except after certain holidays, it is published daily. Its name derives from that of ...'', and was a candidate for the prize in 2011. In addition to comics, Hypén has published two children's books, (Arktinen Banaani, 2014) and (Arktinen Banaani, 2016). Hypén also makes illustrations for games and teaches cartoon drawing, among other things. Hypén graduated with a Master of Philosophy in Cultural History in 2012. Selected works Comics albums * ''Kas, kissa'' * ''Kuoleman pidot'' * ''Nanna'' ** ''Nanna - Cityeläinkirja'' ** ''Nanna 3'' ** ''Nanna 2'' ** ''Nanna - Eläimen pelikirja'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sasha Huber
Sasha Huber (born 1975) is a contemporary artist living and working in Helsinki, Finland. Her work deals with colonial and post-colonial relationships negotiated by African and Caribbean diasporas. She uses photography, moving image, site specific performance, landscape, research and collaboration to explore individual and collective performances of colonial-era pseudo science, racial categorization, migration within the transatlantic slave trade, memorialization and transnational capitalism. Biography and education Huber was born in 1975 in Zürich, Switzerland, to a Haitian mother and Swiss father. Her maternal grandfather emigrated to New York in 1965 to escape the regime of the Haitian dictator François Duvalier. Seeking refuge from the regime, Huber's maternal grandfather migrated to New York City in 1965. Huber graduated with BA in graphic design from the Zurich University of the Arts and Vocational College for Art and Design Zurich. She moved to Finland to become partners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
