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List Of Finnish Women Artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in Finland or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A * Eva Acke (1855–1929), painter * Nina Ahlstedt (1853–1907), painter *Eija-Liisa Ahtila (born 1959), photographer, video artist * Miina Äkkijyrkkä (born 1949), painter, sculptor * Helena Arnell (1697–1751), painter B * Edla Blommér (1817–1908), painter * Heidi Blomstedt (1911–1982), ceramist * Elina Brotherus (born 1972), photographer and video artist * Rut Bryk (1916–1999), ceramist C * Margareta Capsia (1682–1759), painter * Fanny Churberg (1845–1892), landscape painter D * Elin Danielson-Gambogi (1861–1919), painter E *Anna Eriksson (born 1977), filmmaker F * Ellen Favorin (1853–1919), painter * Hilda Flodin (1877–1958), sculptor, etcher and painter * Alina Forsman (1845–1899), sculptor * Alexandra Frosterus-Såltin (1837–1916), painter, illustrator G * Viola Gråsten (1910–1994), textile designer H * Greta Hällfors-Sipilä ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, opposite Estonia. Finland has a population of 5.6 million. Its capital and largest city is Helsinki. The majority of the population are Finns, ethnic Finns. The official languages are Finnish language, Finnish and Swedish language, Swedish; 84.1 percent of the population speak the first as their mother tongue and 5.1 percent the latter. Finland's climate varies from humid continental climate, humid continental in the south to boreal climate, boreal in the north. The land cover is predominantly boreal forest biome, with List of lakes of Finland, more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first settled around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period, last Ice Age. During the Stone Age, various cultures emerged, distinguished by differen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Alexandra Frosterus-Såltin
Alexandra Theodora Frosterus-Såltin (6 December 1837 – 29 February 1916, Vaasa) was a Swedish-speaking population of Finland, Finnish-Swedish Genre art, genre painter and illustrator, who is also known for her altarpieces. Biography She was born in Ingå, Finland, in 1837. Her father, Benjamin, was a theology professor and her mother, Vilhelmina, was Finland's first female graduate student. Her mother died when he was seven, and her father remarried in 1846. Most of her childhood was spent in Vaasa, where her father was a church official. At the age of fourteen, she left home to become a private student of Robert Wilhelm Ekman in Turku, and studied with him for five years.Biographical notes @ Kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli. In 1858, on Ekman's recommendation, she was asked to provid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kaisa Leka
Kaisa Maria Leka (born October 25, 1978) is a Finnish comic artist and politician from Porvoo. Central themes in Leka's autobiographical comics are disability, politics and spiritual searching. Her comics figures are naïvistically simple animals, the most important of which is a mouse, representing Kaisa herself. Publications and other works Current career as an artist Kaisa Leka, works with graphic design as well as comics, mostly layout, for instance for a vegetarian cookbook put together by the Green party's presidential candidate for the 2006 election. Leka has also written a small book about India published by the Helsinki City Art Museum. Along with complete personal works Leka has worked for several magazines and done different smaller projects for a variety of clients. Leka also regularly teaches comics courses and workshops in many different schools. In 2012 she was given the Finnish Comics Society's Puupäähattu award, the most prestigious Finnish award for comic ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gun Lanciai
Gun Lanciai (born Gunvor Westerberg; 10 November 1920 – 15 March 2013), was a Swedish-Finnish sculptor. She was also the illustrator of the Swedish-language school book '' Vi på Solgård'', for reading for the lower levels in Finland by the suggestion of her lifelong friend the writer Solveig von Schoultz. Gun Lanciai lived most of her life in Sweden (1955–2004), was a Finnish citizen until 1965, and from then on a Swedish citizen. Biography Gunvor Westerberg was born on 10 November 1920, in Borgå (Porvoo), Finland. She made her first sculpture, a faun in clay at the age of 13 in 1934. She was accepted at the art academy of Ateneum in Helsinki in 1939 for further education in sculpture and ceramics, which progress was interrupted by the Winter War. She married the half-Italian Aurelio Lanciai in 1942, Finnish junior champion in tennis, and in 1952 moved with him and four children to San Isidro in Argentine, where she found a new teacher in the sculptor Esdras Gianell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sinikka Kurkinen
Sinikka Mirjam Kurkinen (born 1935) is a Finnish painter. She studied in Helsinki and Paris. Kurkinen was born in Joutseno, South Karelia. She gave her first exhibitions in Imatra Imatra is a city in Finland, located in the southeastern interior of the country. Imatra is located in the region of South Karelia, on Saima, Lake Saimaa and the River Vuoksi. The population of Imatra is approximately , while the Imatra sub-regi ... in 1955 and in Helsinki in 1958. Her works can be seen at Ateneum, the Imatra Museum of Art and in various other locations all over the country. Kurkinen is an honorary member of the Imatra Art Association. She has won many awards during her career, including the Art Prize of Imatra in 1983. References External links CV(in Finnish) 1935 births Living people People from Lappeenranta 21st-century Finnish women artists 20th-century Finnish women artists Finnish women painters {{Finland-painter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Meeri Koutaniemi
Meeri is a village in Nõo Parish, Tartu County in eastern Estonia. (retrieved 28 July 2021) Gallery Meeri mõis tagafassaad.JPG, Meeri manor house Meeri park allee.JPG, Manor park References Villages in Tartu County Kreis Dorpat {{Tartu-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
