Helena Westermarck

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Helena Westermarck
Helena Westermarck.jpg
Westermarck in 1894
Born
Helena Charlotta Westermarck

(1857-11-20)20 November 1857
Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland
Died5 April 1938(1938-04-05) (aged 80)
Helsinki, Finland
NationalityFinnish
Known forPainter, writer

Helena Charlotta Westermarck (20 November 1857, Helsinki – 5 April 1938, Helsinki) was a Finnish artist and writer (belonging to Swedish-speaking population of Finland).[1][2][3]

Biography[]

She was the sister of Edvard Westermarck. She worked for long periods in France, often in the company of Helene 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.

Portrait by Helene Schjerfbeck, 1884

After contracting tuberculosis in 1884, she abandoned painting and devoted herself to writing as a critic.[4]

Westermarck also made a significant contribution as a researcher through her cultural and historical works, among which are a series of biographies of female figures, Mathilda Rotkirch (1926), Adelaide Ehrnrooth (1928), and Rosina Heikel (1930). Westermarck's memoir was published in 1941.[5]

Selected works[]

  • Ur studieboken I–II: Berättelser och utkast, 1890–91
  • Framåt. Berättelse, 1894
  • George Eliot 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. Kvinnospår i finländskt kulturliv, 1928
  • Finlands första kvinnliga läkare Rosina Heikel, 1930
  • Tre konstnärinnor. Fanny Churberg, Maria Wiik och Sigrid af Forselles, 1937
  • Mina levnadsminnen, 1941

Gallery[]

  • Portrait of watchmaker Anders Wilhelm Felixzon, unknown date

  • General Albert Westermarck, c. 1880

  • Abyssinian, 1880

  • Colarossi's Son, 1881

  • Ironesses; An Important Question, 1883

  • An Old Woman, 1883

  • Children in a Cottage, 1892

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Konttinen, Riitta (22 April 2015). "Westermarck, Helena (1857–1938)". Kansallisbiografia. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  2. ^ "Westermarck, Helena". Kirjasampo. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  3. ^ Uimonen, Anu (8 September 2009). "Taiteilija kysyi tärkeitä kysymyksiä". Helsingin Sanomat. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  4. ^ Alarto, Anne; Kyrki, Irma; Saraste, Maija. "Sara's sisters: The tradition of women's literature in Finland from the 19th century to the early 20th century" (PDF) (in Finnish). Oulu City Library-Provincial Library. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  5. ^ "Westermarck, Helena" (in Swedish). Uppslagsverket Finland. Retrieved 26 June 2016.

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.
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