Åke Fredrik Hellman (19 July 1915 – 18 December 2017) was a Swedish-speaking

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and portrait artist and art professor. He worked as art teacher at the

University of Helsinki The University of Helsinki ( fi, Helsingin yliopisto, sv, Helsingfors universitet, abbreviated UH) is a public research university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but founded in the city of Turku (in Swedish ''Åbo'') in 1640 as the ...

. In 1963, he received the

order of the Lion of Finland The Order of the Lion of Finland ( fi, Suomen Leijonan ritarikunta; sv, Finlands Lejons orden) is one of three official orders in Finland, along with the Order of the Cross of Liberty and the Order of the White Rose of Finland. The President o ...

. Åke Hellman was born in

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. He was married to the painter Karin Hellman, née Wisuri, who was 11 days older, until her death on 25 February 2004. They met when studying together at

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1934–1938, and have the son Karl-Johan (born 1944) and the daughter Åsa (born 1947) who is a ceramist. ''Människan och målaren'' ("The Human and the Painter"), a biography of Hellman written by

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and Erik Kruskopf, was published until Hellman's 90th birthday in 2005. Hellman turned 100 on 19 July 2015. He died in

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on 18 December 2017 at the age of 102.

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Åke Hellman
in ''

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''.
Åke Hellman and his artistship.

A Shared Atelier – Karin and Åke Hellman
at Kunsthalle Helsinki. 1915 births 2017 deaths Pro Finlandia Medals of the Order of the Lion of Finland Finnish still life painters Academic staff of the University of Helsinki Finnish centenarians Men centenarians Portrait painters 20th-century Finnish painters 21st-century Finnish painters Artists from Helsinki Swedish-speaking Finns {{Finland-painter-stub