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Biography

Sigrid Maria Schauman was born on 24 December 1877 at Chuguyev, in the

of the

(present-day Ukraine), the daughter of general Fredrik Waldemar Schauman and Elin Maria Schauman. Her mother was the daughter of the

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, Finland. After living in

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, the Schaumans returned to Finland in 1885 as the mother had died in 1884. In 1899 Sigrid began her studies in the Finnish Association of Arts Drawing School in Helsinki, where her teachers included Carl Jahn and

Helene Schjerfbeck Helena Sofia (Helene) Schjerfbeck (; July 10, 1862 – January 23, 1946) was a Finnish painter. A modernist painter, she is known for her realist works and self-portraits, and also for her landscapes and still lifes. Throughout her long life, he ...

. In 1901 she participated for the first time in a group exhibition at the

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. In 1904 Schauman's brother,

Eugen Schauman Eugen Waldemar Schauman (russian: Евгений Владимирович Шауман, ''Evgeny Vladimirovich Shauman''); ( – ) was a Swedish speaking Finnish nationalist and nobleman. Schauman assassinated the Imperial Russian Governor-Gener ...

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the

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Nikolai Bobrikov Nikolay Ivanovich Bobrikov (russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Бо́бриков; in St. Petersburg – June 17, 1904 in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland) was a Russian general and politician. He was the Governor-General of Finla ...

. After this she moved to

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, and continued studying in

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and in

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, where she was at the Academie de la Palette in 1910 before travelling in Egypt. She married Edvard Wolff, but he died shortly after the birth of their daughter Elisabeth in 1913. In 1920 Schauman started work in the newspaper '' Dagens Press'' (from 1922 ''Svenska Pressen'', from 1945 ''Nya Pressen'') as an art critic, and worked for the newspaper for almost 30 years, publishing over 1500 art reviews, interviews and travel reports.Sigrid Schauman
at the Turku Art Museum. Accessed on 18 May 2008. In 1939 she visited Rome and Paris. After

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, Schauman worked as a teacher in the Free School of Arts from 1945 to 1946. She retired in 1949, but continued painting on a grant provided by the City of Helsinki and an artist's pension from the State of Finland. During the 1950s Schauman frequently travelled in France and Italy. She was a founding member of the Prisma group of artists in 1956. Schauman's weakening eyesight prevented her from continuing to paint in the late 1960s. Even a year before her death, Schauman participated in a retrospective exhibition held in honour of her 100th birthday in the Amos Anderson Art Museum. In the same year, she was awarded the

Prince Eugen Medal The Prince Eugen Medal ( sv, Prins Eugen-medaljen) is a medal conferred by the King of Sweden for "outstanding artistic achievement". The medal was established in 1945 by the then King of Sweden, Gustaf V, in connection with the eightieth birthd ...

by the

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for her artistic contributions. Sigrid Schauman published a biographical book ''Min bror Eugen: En gestalt ur Finlands frihetskamp'' ("My brother Eugen Schauman: A figure from Finland's fight for freedom") in 1964.

References

External links

Sigrid Schauman's works at the art museum of the State of Finland

Art Museum of Oulu.
Schauman, Sigrid
at ''Biografiskt lexikon för Finland'' . {{DEFAULTSORT:Schauman, Sigrid 1877 births 1979 deaths People from Chuhuiv People from Kharkov Governorate Swedish-speaking Finns Finnish people of German descent Finnish centenarians Finnish art critics Recipients of the Prince Eugen Medal 20th-century Finnish painters 20th-century Finnish women artists Women centenarians Women art critics