Marja Lahelma, PhD, art historian
In the past decade, Helene Schjerfbeck, one of Finland’s most celebrated artists, has received increasing international recognition, yet her biographies have been available only in Finnish and Swedish. Now art historian Marja Lahelma reassesses the painter’s life and oeuvre in this first biography published in English. We hope that in publishing this book online, this project initiated by the Ateneum Art Museum will meet the growing demand from professional enthusiasts keen to find out more about this innovative artist who boldly followed her own path towards modernism.
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Marja Lahelma: Helene Schjerfbeck – An Artist’s Life
Publisher Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, 2023
Editor-in-Chief Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff
Editor and Picture Editor Hanna-Leena Paloposki
Language Revision Gill Crabbe
Graphic Design Lagarto / Jaana Jäntti and Arto Tenkanen
Copyright Authors and the Finnish National Gallery
ISBN 978-952-7371-63-3 (pdf)
ISSN 2343-0850 (FNG Research)
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Early Years
- Childhood
- An Art Student in Helsinki
- An Artistic Debut
In the Big Wide World
- À Paris!
- Finistère
- Boulevards and Ateliers
- St Ives
Artistic Transformation
- In the Footsteps of the Old Masters
- Endings and New Beginnings
- A Room of Her Own
- Towards Synthesis
The Modernist
- The ‘Renaissance’
- Friends and Promoters
- The First Solo Exhibition
Surface and Depth
- Materials and Inspirations
- The Painter of Modern Life
- Variations and Reinterpretations
Grand Finale and Afterlife
- The Second World War
- The Late Self-Portraits
- Life After Death
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Featured image: Helene Schjerfbeck, c. 1895
Photographer unknown
Archived Photo Prints. Archive Collections, Finnish National Gallery
Photo: Finnish National Gallery
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