Helene Schjerfbeck
Painting, Visual Artist
1862 – 1946
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Who was Helene Schjerfbeck?
Helene Schjerfbeck was a Finnish painter. She is most widely known for her realist works and self-portraits, and less well known for her landscapes and still lifes. Throughout her long life, her work changed dramatically.
Her work starts with a dazzlingly skilled, somewhat melancholic version of late-19th-century academic realism…it ends with distilled, nearly abstract images in which pure paint and cryptic description are held in perfect balance.
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- Born
- Jul 10, 1862
Helsinki - Also known as
- Шерфбек, Хелена
- Education
- Académie Colarossi
- Lived in
- Helsinki
- Died
- Jan 23, 1946
Stockholm - Resting place
- Hietaniemi cemetery
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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