Henry John Carl Wuorila-Stenberg (Act. Stenberg, born February 6, 1949) is a

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artist, who in many of his works has tones of

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and

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. Wuorila-Stenberg was born in

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. He began his art studies in Finland 1967–1969 in the School of the Finnish Academy of Art as a private pupil and then in the Free Art School under the guidance of Tor Arne and Unto Pusa. He continued his studies in

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1970-71 and moved then to West Berlin, where in 1974 he earned his academic degree in the Berlin State School of Fine Arts. In 1978 he studied anatomy in

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in the class of

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. Wuorila-Stenberg has been a long-time teacher of painting. He worked in the

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1984-98 and in the

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in 1996-2005 first as a part-time teacher and then as a professor and the head of the department of painting. Wuorila-Stenberg has been awarded with the Finland Prize in 1996, an honorary diploma of the World Cultural Council in 2003 and the

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in 2004. In 2013 he published his autobiography Hämärän näkijä (in Finnish).

References

External links

Wuorila-Stenberg websiteRegister of the Artists' Association of Finland
Living people 1949 births 20th-century Finnish painters 21st-century Finnish painters 21st-century male artists Finnish male painters 20th-century Finnish male artists {{Finland-painter-stub