Carl Eneas Sjöstrand (11 September 1828 – 14 February 1906) was a

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sculptor who worked for over 40 years in the Grand Duchy of Finland.

Biography

Sjöstrand was born at

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

, Sweden. He was the son of painter Carl Johan Sjöstrand (1789-1857) and his wife Johanna Sofia Morberg. He first trained at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts with Carl Gustaf Qvarnström (1810-1867). In the 1850s, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and as a private student with sculptor Herman Wilhelm Bissen (1798–1868). Sjöstrand first arrived in Finland in the autumn of 1856 where he worked on the statue of

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(1739–1804) in Turku. After working in Stockholm in 1861–1862, in 1863 Sjöstrand was offered a position as instructor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki by Fredrik Cygnaeus (1807–1881). Sjöstrand was a teacher in Finland for a total of 18 years. Among his students was the Finnish sculptor

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(1838–1920). Sjöstrand is considered to have been the founder of Finnish sculpture because of his role as a promoter of Finnish public sculpture in the 1850s and 60s, and his interpretations of Finnish themes.

Personal life

Carl Eneas Sjöstrand was married to Herminie von Stahl. He was the father of the painter Helmi Sjöstrand (1864-1957) and of Gerda Sjöstrand (1862-1956), who married the Italian composer

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. Sjöstrand lived in Finland from 1863 until 1904. His wife died in 1884. He died in Stockholm during 1906 and was 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.

Notable works

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