Sini Anita Kyllikki Snellman (4 September 1924 – 24 February 2006) was a
Finnish painter.
Biography
Snellman was born in Helsinki on 4 September 1924.
She studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Helsinki, the
Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm and at
Académie Julian
The Académie Julian () was a private art school for painting and sculpture founded in Paris, France, in 1867 by French painter and teacher Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907) that was active from 1868 through 1968. It remained famous for the number a ...
in Paris.
After spending time in Paris, she moved to
Ibiza
Ibiza (natively and officially in ca, Eivissa, ) is a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea off the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula. It is from the city of Valencia. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands, in Spain. Its l ...
,
where she bought an apartment in the late 1960s.
Snellman taught at the
Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki from 1971 to 1979.
She received the
Pro Finlandia in 1976. In 1979 she established the Anita Snellman Foundation.
Snellman died on 24 February 2006 in Helsinki.
She is buried in the
Hietaniemi Cemetery
The Hietaniemi cemetery ( fi, Hietaniemen hautausmaa, sv, Sandudds begravningsplats) is located mainly in the Lapinlahti quarter and partly in the Etu-Töölö district of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. It is the location for Finnish state ...
in Helsinki.
Collections
Snellman's work is held in the following public collections in Finland:
*
Ateneum Art Museum
*
Amos Anderson Art Museum Amos Rex is an art museum named after publisher and arts patron Amos Anderson located in Lasipalatsi, Mannerheimintie, Helsinki, Finland. It opened in 2018 and rapidly reached international popularity, attracting more than 10,000 visitors in a mat ...
* Lahti Museum
* Tampere Museum for Contemporary Art
*
Oulu Museum of Art
The Oulu Museum of Art (OMA) is an art museum in the Myllytulli neighbourhood in Oulu. It is located on the edge of the Hupisaaret Islands park.
The museum was opened to the public on October 12, 1963. The first premises were in the so-called ''Ko ...
* Joensuu Art Museum
* Imatra Art Museum
*
Helsinki Art Museum
Helsinki Art Museum ( fi, Helsingin taidemuseo, sv, Helsingfors konstmuseum), abbreviated as HAM, is an art museum in Helsinki, Finland. It is located in Tennispalatsi in Kamppi. The museum reopened after renovations and rebranding (as HAM) in 20 ...
* Kuopio Art Museum
*
Wihuri Foundation collection
References
Further reading
* Ahtola-Moorhouse, Leena (ed.): ''Anita Snellman 1924–2006.'' Helsinki: Anita Snellmanin säätiö, 2014. .
External links
Images of Anita Snellman's paintingson Bukowskis Fine Art site
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1924 births
2006 deaths
People from Ibiza
20th-century Finnish painters
Finnish expatriates in Spain
20th-century Finnish women artists
Burials at Hietaniemi Cemetery
Finnish women painters
20th-century women painters