Fanny Churberg
Fanny Maria Churberg (born December 12, 1845 in Vaasa , † May 10, 1892 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish landscape painter .
Life
Fanny Churberg decided at an early age to become an artist and accordingly, after attending school in a girls' boarding school, she went on to study at the Art Academy in Helsinki. She financed this training through the inheritance of her father, who was a well-to-do doctor and died early. She received her first painting lessons from Alexandra Frosterus-Såltin , who had studied with Otto Mengelberg until 1862 , with Emma Gyldén and Berndt Lindholm . In 1867 she went to Düsseldorf to study art there. Since the Düsseldorf Art Academy did not accept women, she took private lessons. She stayed in Düsseldorf until 1868, then again from 1871 to 1874. During this time, the landscape painter Karl Ludwig was her private tutor.
From 1875 she traveled to France and lived in Paris until 1878 . There she took lessons from Wilhelm von Gegerfelt . She then returned to Finland to get involved in the Finnish Art Association in Helsinki and to exhibit there. In 1879 she received the first prize for a painting at such an exhibition, otherwise the interest of the Finns in her pictures was very reserved during her lifetime. In 1880 she completely stopped painting and subsequently advocated the establishment of a Finnish handicraft. She founded pottery and weaving shops and also wrote articles about Finnish handicrafts in magazines.
Fanny Churberg died in Helsinki in 1892. It was not until 1919 that she was rediscovered as an artist and given a large memorial exhibition.
painting
Although Fanny Churberg had learned in the tradition of the Düsseldorf school , she never tried to adopt the style of near-natural landscape painting composed in the studio that prevailed there. In this she differed from her compatriot Werner Holmberg (1830–1860), who lived around the same time and also studied in Düsseldorf. Instead, she relied on the representation of wild nature and emphasized this with her style, in which she used powerful colors and thick brushstrokes. In this way the pictures became almost expressionistic and resembled those of the pictures by Emil Nolde or Edvard Munch, which were only created many years later .
Thematically, she mainly preferred the representation of the rough landscape in late autumn and winter, painting mostly scenes of twilight, sunset or moonlit night.
literature
- Johan Jakob Tikkanen : Churberg, Fanny Maria . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 6 : Carlini-Cioci . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 553 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Churberg, Fanny . In: Delia Gaze (Ed.): Concise Dictionary of Women Artists . Routledge, Abingdon / UK 2011, p. 254 ( Google Books ).
- Götz Czymmek (Hrsg.): Landscape in the light. Impressionist painting in Europe and North America 1860–1910. Exhibition catalog of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne and the Kunsthaus Zürich, 1990.
- Fredrik Ahlstedt : Fanny Maria Churberg . In: Finska qvinnor på olika arbetsområden. Biografiskt album , Finsk Qvinnoförening (Finnish Women's Association), Helsinki 1892.
Web links
- Bianca Hillebrandt: Fanny Churberg (1845–1892) , biography in the portal germanistik.hhi.de
- Fanny Maria Churberg. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, studies and stay 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. 428
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Churberg, Fanny |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Churberg, Fanny Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vaasa |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 10, 1892 |
| Place of death | Helsinki |