Victoria Åberg

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Ulrika Victoria Åberg (born February 23, 1824 in Loviisa , Grand Duchy of Finland ; † July 15, 1892 in Weimar , Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach ) was a Finnish landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School . Alongside Alexandra Frosterus-Såltin , she is considered to be the first truly professional artist in Finland.

Life

After his first artistic lessons with Joseph Desanord in Porvoo , Åberg first worked as a drawing teacher at a girls' school from 1846 and at the same time attended the drawing school of the Finnish Art Association in Helsinki from 1848 to 1850 . In 1858 she went to Düsseldorf , where - since there was no academic art education for her as a woman in art - she was a private student of the Norwegian landscape painter Hans Fredrik Gude until 1862 . In Düsseldorf she met the Schirmer student Alexander Michelis , who in 1863 became professor of landscape painting at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar . In Weimar she also took private lessons from him. Then she moved to Dresden , where Ludwig Richter was her private tutor. Gude and Richter praised their talent; her paintings have been exhibited, awarded and bought internationally. In 1868/1869 and 1870–1876 she stayed in Italy, especially in Florence and Rome , after which she lived in Germany, from 1883 in Weimar. After she had trained herself early on by copying, Åberg devoted herself to landscape painting with first Finnish, then mainly German and Italian motifs. Her painting German Landscape , created in 1860 during her study visit in Düsseldorf, received the first prize of the Finnish Art Association in 1861. In 1865 she received honorary membership of the Imperial Art Academy St. Petersburg . Her portrait was painted by Rosa Petzel (1831–1912) in Weimar in 1885.

Åberg commented on the arduous career of a 19th century painter in these words: “We pay for our painting studies, etc., in gold, while men get it for free at their academies; We also pay not only for the instructions, but also for studios, heating, models! How can life be so unfair these days? "

Works (selection)

Park , watercolor

The art historian Johan Jakob Tikkanen wrote about her and her work: "Painted Finnish, German and Italian landscapes with romantic idealization, for a time under the more realistic influence of Gude."

  • Path at the edge of the forest , around 1851, Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • Interior of the Church of Bilk , 1860
  • German Landscape , 1860, Ateneum , Helsinki
  • Landscape , 1863
  • Olavinlinna Castle , 1864, Ateneum, Helsinki
  • Moonlight Landscape , 1872, Ateneum, Helsinki
  • Park (Puisto) , watercolor, Pori Art Museum (Porin taidemuseo), Pori

literature

  • Åberg, Victoria. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/1, sheets 1–30: Aagaard – Heideck. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, p. 2 ( archive.org ).
  • Johan Jakob Tikkanen : Åberg, Ulrika Victoria . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 21 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Emanuel Bénézit (ed.): Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . Volume 1. 1976
  • Åberg, Victoria . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 1, Seemann, Leipzig 1983, ISBN 3-598-22741-8 .
  • 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. 425
  • Ritva Röminger, in: Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , pp. 39-40 (fig.).

Web links

Commons : Victoria Åberg  - 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 March 12, 2016.
  2. ^ Nicole Roth: Ulrika Victoria Åberg. 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 2, p. 228 (Catalog No. 179).
  3. ^ Johan Jakob Tikkanen: Åberg, Ulrika Victoria . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 21 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Åberg, Victoria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Åberg, Ulrika Victoria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Loviisa , Grand Duchy of Finland
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1892
Place of death Weimar , Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach