Carl August Henry Ericsson, born 6 February 1898 in St. Michel, Finland, died 16 October 1933 in

Borgå Porvoo (; sv, Borgå ; la, Borgoa) is a city and a municipality in the Uusimaa region of Finland, situated on the southern coast about east of the city border of Helsinki and about from the city centre. Porvoo was one of the six medieval to ...

, was a Finnish graphic artist and decorative painter. Henry Ericsson was the son of Lieutenant Alexander Ericsson and Carolina Albertina Valeriana Aspling. He graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts 1915–1918 and 1919, at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma in Rome and at

Académie Colarossi The Académie Colarossi (1870–1930) was an art school in Paris founded in 1870 by the Italian model and sculptor Filippo Colarossi. It was originally located on the Île de la Cité, and it moved in 1879 to 10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière in the ...

and

Académie de la Grande Chaumiere An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, f ...

in Paris 1922–1924.

Gallery

Affresco angelo.jpg , Fresco painting in Kristuskyrkan ( Christus Church ) in Helsinki (detail of the angel)

References

Bibliography

* Christoffer H. Ericsson: ''Min far – en konstnärsbiografi'', Litorale, Borgå 2002,

External links

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Artwork in the Finnish National Gallery
Finnish graphic designers 20th-century Finnish painters 1898 births 1933 deaths People from Porvoo Alumni of the Académie de la Grande Chaumière Finnish male painters 20th-century Finnish male artists {{Finland-painter-stub