Robert Wilhelm Ekman

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Robert Wilhelm Ekman: Portrait of Georg August Wallin , 1853
Robert Wilhelm Ekman, Väinämöisen soitto , 1866

Robert Wilhelm Ekman (born August 13, 1808 in Uusikaupunki , Finland , † April 19, 1873 in Helsinki ) was an important Finnish painter and teacher of the national romantic style.

life and work

Ekman was born in the Swedish-speaking part of the coast of Finland, in Nystad (Uusikaupunki), as the son of the doctor Karl Kristoffer Ekman and his wife Sara Elisabet (née Gadolin). He began his studies in Finland with Gustaf Wilhelm Finnberg (1784-1833) and continued it at the Kungliga Konsthögskolan (Royal Swedish Academy of Arts) in Stockholm . In 1836 he completed his studies, became a Swedish citizen and made study trips to the Netherlands, France and Italy from 1837 to 1844. After his return to Stockholm in 1844 he became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy .

In 1845 Ekmann returned to Finland and became a teacher at the drawing school ( Turun Piirustuskoulu ) founded by Carl Gustaf Söderstrand in Turku in 1830 . Ekman was considered to be a innovator of Finnish painting, whereby he was particularly committed to history and portrait painting and the motifs of the national epic Kalevala . In Turku, he painted the frescoes in the cathedral , which he completed in 1855. From 1850 he reformed art teaching at the drawing school in Helsinki, which was founded in 1848. In 1855 he became a Finnish citizen again. In Turku, a monument made of red granite by Wäinö Aaltonen (1894–1966) and inaugurated in 1927 honors the important teacher and artist.

Works in public collections (selection)

  • Finnish National Gallery (Ateneum Art Museum), Helsinki
  • Gösta Serlachius Museum of Fine Arts (Gösta Serlachiuksen taidemuseo), Mänttä
  • Tampere Art Museum (Tampereen taidemuseo), Tampere
  • Turku Art Museum (Turun taidemuseo), Turku

Web links

Commons : Robert Wilhelm Ekman  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ National Master Encyclopedia
  2. ↑ Ralph Tuchtenhagen: Finland, Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / eeo.uni-klu.ac.at  
  3. ↑ Olli Alho, Gisbert Jänicke, Päivi Vallisaari: culture lexicon Finland. Finnish Literary Society, Helsinki 1998, ISBN 951-746-032-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Ekman, Robert Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Uusikaupunki , Finland
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1873
Place of death Helsinki