Alexandra Frosterus-Såltin

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Alexandra Frosterus-Såltin , photo by Daniel Nyblin

Alexandra Theodora Frosterus-Såltin (born December 6, 1837 in Ingå , Grand Duchy of Finland , † February 29, 1916 in Vaasa , Grand Duchy of Finland) was a Finnish painter from the Düsseldorf School . Along with Victoria Åberg , she is considered to be the first truly professional artist in Finland.

Life

Frosterus-Såltin was the daughter of the Finnish-Swedish theology professor Benjamin Frosterus (1792-1856) and his wife Vilhelmina Sofia, née Gadolin. In 1866 she married the hospital doctor Fredrik Viktor Såltin (1833–1873). The couple had three children.

She began her artistic training between 1852 and 1857 at the drawing school in Turku with Robert Wilhelm Ekman . From 1857 to 1859 she went to Düsseldorf on the basis of a scholarship from the Finnish Art Association in the amount of 300 silver rubles to take private lessons with the history and portrait painter Otto Mengelberg . Another stay at Mengelberg followed in the years 1860 to 1862, during which the portrait of the Norwegian painter Johanne Mathilde Dietrichson (1837–1921) was created in 1861. From 1862 to 1863 she stayed in Paris . She then returned to Finland and lived in Helsinki . After the untimely death of her husband, she was forced to give drawing lessons to secure a livelihood. Fanny Churberg was one of her students . From 1874 she took a position as a teacher at the drawing school of the Finnish Art Association in Turku. In addition, she accepted orders for sacred paintings from parishes.

Works (selection)

Mathilde Bonnevie , 1861
  • Illustrations for the abstinence- inspired book Turmiolan Tommin Elämäkerta (The Life of Dissolute Tommy), 1858
  • Portrait of the painter Mathilde Bonnevie , 1861
  • The boy and the grandmother , 1874
  • Jesus in Gethsemane , altarpiece for the church of Törnävä, 1877
  • Transfiguration of the Lord , altarpiece for the Alexander Church in Tampere , 1883
  • Altarpiece for the Church of Messukylä , 1888
  • Altarpiece for the Church of Kerimäki , 1890
  • Altarpiece for Jalasjärvi Church , 1906
  • Altarpiece for the Lavian kirkko in Pori , 1907

literature

  • Alexandra Teodora F.-Såltin . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 8 : Feiss-Fruktmögel . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1908, Sp. 1494 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  • Pirjo Juusela: Alexandra Frosterus-Såltin 1837-1916 . Unpublished master thesis at the University of Turku, Turku 1983

Web links

Commons : Alexandra Frosterus-Såltin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Riitta Konttinen: Finnish women artists on their way to professionalism . finnland-institut.de (PDF) accessed on April 24, 2016
  2. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 430
  3. ↑ Alexandra Frosterus-Såltin (1837–1916) ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website in the tikanojantaidekoti.fi portal , accessed on April 24, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tikanojantaidekoti.fi
personal data
SURNAME Frosterus-Såltin, Alexandra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frosterus-Såltin, Alexandra Theodora (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Ingå , Grand Duchy of Finland
DATE OF DEATH February 29, 1916
Place of death Vaasa , Grand Duchy of Finland