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Helena Charlotta Westermarck (20 November 1857,
After contracting tuberculosis in 1884, she abandoned painting and devoted herself to writing as a critic.
Westermarck began her writing career as a novelist. Her novels can be looked at as an artifact of women's history and the everyday life of upper- and middle-class women.
Westermarck also made a significant contribution as a researcher through her cultural and historical works. In her research, she worked beside her brother,
Helene Westermarck
at Nordisk familjebok – Uggleupplagan. 32. Werth–Väderkvarn / col. 45–46 (1921). *Dahlberg, Julia (2018). "When Artists Became Intellectuals. Female Artistic Persona and Science as a Significant Other", ''Persona Studies'' 4:1 (2018), 60–73. {{DEFAULTSORT:Westermarck, Helena 1857 births 1938 deaths Artists from Helsinki Finnish women artists Swedish women artists 19th-century Finnish women writers 19th-century Swedish women writers 20th-century Finnish women writers 20th-century Swedish women writers 19th-century Finnish writers 19th-century Swedish writers 20th-century Finnish writers 20th-century Swedish writers Writers from Helsinki Finnish expatriates in France Swedish-speaking Finns
Helsinki
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– 5 April 1938, Helsinki) was a Finnish artist and writer (belonging to Swedish-speaking population of Finland). She is known for her pioneering biographies of women.
Biography
Westermarck studied art at the Drawing School of the Finnish Art Society and the private academy of Adolf von Becker. During her studies, she metHelene 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 ...
, who remained a close friend for the rest of their lives. Westermarck and Schjerfbeck were a part of a group of female artists, "the painter sisters." This group included Maria Wiik and Elin Danielson-Gambogi.
Westermarck worked for long periods in France, often in the company of Schjerfbeck, and developed a sensible realistic style especially with portraits and figure compositions. At the Exposition Universelle (1889), she received honorable mention for her painting ''Strykerskor''.
After contracting tuberculosis in 1884, she abandoned painting and devoted herself to writing as a critic.
Westermarck began her writing career as a novelist. Her novels can be looked at as an artifact of women's history and the everyday life of upper- and middle-class women.
Westermarck also made a significant contribution as a researcher through her cultural and historical works. In her research, she worked beside her brother, Edvard Westermarck
Edvard Alexander Westermarck (Helsinki, 20 November 1862 – Tenala, 3 September 1939) was a Finnish philosopher and sociologist. Among other subjects, he studied exogamy and the incest taboo.
Biography
Westermarck was born in 1862 in a ...
, in the British Library
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. She began her pioneering biographic works in the early 1890s. These works include a series of biographies of female figures. Many of her biographies are on unknown female painters who were "discovered" in the 1980s, including. Mathilda Rotkirch (1926). She also wrote about women who were pioneers in their respective fields, including Elisabeth Blomqvist (1916–17), Adelaide Ehrnrooth (1928), and Rosina Heikel (1930).
Westermarck's memoir was published in 1941.
Selected works
* ''Ur studieboken I–II: Berättelser och utkast'', 1890–91 * ''Framåt. Berättelse'', 1894 * ''George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wro ...
och den engelska naturalistiska romanen. En litterär studie'', 1894
* ''Nyländska folksagor berättade för ungdom af Helena Westermarck'', 1897
* ''Lifvets seger'', 1898
*"Tecken och minnesskrift från adertonhundratalet" I-III, 1900–1911:
** I ''I fru Ulrikas hem. Interiör från farmödrarnas tid'', 1900
** II ''Ljud i natten. Berättelse'', 1903
** III ''Vandrare. Roman'', 1911
* '' Fredrika Runeberg. En litterär studie'', 1904
* ''Dolda makter. Bilder och hägringar'', 1905
* ''Bönhörelse. En historia'', 1909
* ''Kvinnospår. Kulturbilder från 1800-talets förra del'', 1913
* '' Elisabeth Blomqvist. Hennes Liv och gärning'' I–II, 1916–17
* ''Vägvisare. Berättelse'', 1922
* ''Mathilda Rotkirch, Finlands första målarinna. En kulturbild'', 1926
* ''Adelaïde Ehrnrooth
Lovisa Adelaïde Ehrnrooth (17 January 1826 – 31 May 1905) was a Finnish feminist and writer. Adelaïde Ehrnrooth was born in Nastola, one of the 16 children of an aristocratic family.''Suomen kulttuurihistoria'', p. 59. Editor in chief Laur ...
. Kvinnospår i finländskt kulturliv'', 1928
* ''Finlands första kvinnliga läkare Rosina Heikel'', 1930
* ''Tre konstnärinnor. Fanny Churberg, Maria Wiik och Sigrid af Forselles
Sigrid af Forselles (1860—1935) was a Finnish sculptor, notable for being one of the first professional female sculptors of the country.
Early life and education
Sigrid af Forselles was born to an upper-class family of minor nobility; her fa ...
'', 1937
* ''Mina levnadsminnen'', 1941
Gallery
See also
*Golden Age of Finnish Art
The Golden Age of Finnish Art coincided with the national awakening of Finland, during the era of the Grand Duchy of Finland under the Russian Empire. It is believed to span an era from the late 19th Century to the early 20th Century, approximate ...
* Finnish art
Finnish art started to form its individual characteristics in the 19th century, when romantic nationalism began to rise in the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland.
Prehistoric art
Marks of human activity in Finland has found in Susiluola, Krist ...
References
External links
Helene Westermarck
at Nordisk familjebok – Uggleupplagan. 32. Werth–Väderkvarn / col. 45–46 (1921). *Dahlberg, Julia (2018). "When Artists Became Intellectuals. Female Artistic Persona and Science as a Significant Other", ''Persona Studies'' 4:1 (2018), 60–73. {{DEFAULTSORT:Westermarck, Helena 1857 births 1938 deaths Artists from Helsinki Finnish women artists Swedish women artists 19th-century Finnish women writers 19th-century Swedish women writers 20th-century Finnish women writers 20th-century Swedish women writers 19th-century Finnish writers 19th-century Swedish writers 20th-century Finnish writers 20th-century Swedish writers Writers from Helsinki Finnish expatriates in France Swedish-speaking Finns