Augusta Soldan

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Augusta Soldan

Augusta Soldan (born July 17, 1826 in Lappeenranta (Swedish: Villmanstrand), † August 29, 1886 in Sortavala ) was a Finnish landscape painter and drawing teacher

Life

Augusta Evelina Soldan was the daughter of bailiff Carl Gustaf Soldan and his wife Ulrika, née Lucander. August Fredrik Soldan (1817–1885), one of her brothers, was the first director of the Finnish mint; his daughter Venny Soldan-Brofeldt (1863–1945) was also a well-known Finnish artist.

Augusta Soldan studied at Helsingfors University's drawing school , where she was tutored by Magnus von Wright . She traveled with him to Düsseldorf in 1857, where both worked for a few months in the studio of the Norwegian landscape painter Hans Gude . After her return she taught as a drawing teacher. She remained unmarried and died after a serious illness at the age of 60.

Augusta Soldan formed herself, among other things, by copying paintings by well-known Düsseldorf painters , including Albert Flamm and Franz Hengsbach . Her own works were mostly small-format landscape pictures, which show the influence of her stay in Düsseldorf in terms of composition and color. In 1854 she was represented for the first time with a painting in an exhibition. In 1861 she received a second prize in the Ducat Prize of the Finnish Art Association.

Selection of works

  • Skogsbäck (Waldbach), 1853; Oil, 38 × 44 cm (art trade)
  • Maisematutkielma (landscape study), copy after Albert Flamm, 1858: Helsinki, Finnish National Gallery - Ateneum
  • Baijerilainen vuoristomaisema (Bavarian mountain landscape), copy after Franz Hengsbach, 1864
  • Winter landscape ; Oil / canvas, 36 × 45 cm (art trade)

literature

  • Riitta Konttinen: Naistaiteilijat Suomessa: keskiajalta modernismin murrokseen. Tammi, Helsinki 2008, ISBN 978-951-31-4105-9 .

Web links

Commons : Augusta Soldan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All coins that were minted during his term in office from 1861 to 1885 are marked with the mintmark S.
  2. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel, Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Always Heiser, Sabine Teichgröb: List 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. 443
  3. ↑ Jukka Ervamaa, in: Biografisk lexikon för Finland ( http://www.blf.fi/artikel.php?id=3693 )
  4. ↑ Death report: EKENÄS NOTISBLAD, No. 68, August 31, 1886, p. 1; NYA PRESSEN, Tidning för Politik, Handel och Industri, No. 235, August 31, 1886; Obituary: FINLAND, No. 201, Helsingfors, September 1, 1886, p. 1
  5. ↑ the first prize went to Victoria Åberg , another second prize to Axel Gyldén
  6. ↑ Susanna Pettersson: Suomen Taideyhdistyksen jakamat Dukaattipalkinnot 1858-2006. Listan laatinut , in: https://suomentaideyhdistys.fi/awards-grants/awards/dukaattipalkinto
personal data
SURNAME Soldan, Augusta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soldan, Augusta Evelina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Lappeenranta
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1886
Place of death Sortavala