Elias Muukka

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Elias Muukka , until 1870 Elias Kaijansinkko (born June 10, 1853 in Lemi , Grand Duchy of Finland , † October 2, 1938 in Helsinki , Finland ), was a Finnish landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Muukka was the son of the farmer Matti Kaijansinkko and his wife Christina Muukka. Even as a child in Vyborg , Muukka was interested in drawing . He deepened this interest between 1874 and 1877 when he attended the drawing school of the Finnish Art Association in Helsinki. He then traveled to Düsseldorf , where he was enrolled at the Royal Prussian Art Academy in 1877/1878 . There were Andreas Müller and Heinrich Lauenstein his teachers. In 1880/1881 he stayed in Paris and attended the Académie Colarossi . He then returned to Finland and worked as an art teacher in various secondary schools. In 1883 he married Anni Agnes Fagerlund († 1931). In 1924 he was made an honorary member of the Finnish Art Association, and in 1928 he was given the title of professor .

Works (selection)

Landskap från Düsseldorf , 1878, Finnish National Museum
Natt i Önningeby (Night in Önningeby) , 1888
  • Landskap från Düsseldorf , 1878, Finnish National Museum
  • Uthus på Övre Knapans , 1888
  • Natt i Önningeby , 1888
  • Fiske i skymningen , 1890
  • Läsestund , 1899
  • Väinämöinens sång , 1903
  • Idylliskt Sommarlandskap , 1905
  • Landskap från Klemis , 1911
  • Talvinen maisema (Winter Landscape) , 1924, National Museum of Finland
  • Self-portrait, 1926
  • Altarpiece in the church of Kokijärvis: Jesus i Getsemane , 1920s
  • Ljusets lek i skogen , 1932

literature

  • Ilmari Heikinheimo: Suomen elämäkerrasto . Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö, Helsinki 1955. p. 522

Web links

Commons : Elias Muukka  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 436
personal data
SURNAME Muukka, Elias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaijansinkko, Elias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Lemi , Grand Duchy of Finland
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1938
Place of death Helsinki , Finland