Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946)

Aliases: Helena Schjerfbeck; Helena Sofia Schjerfbeck; Hélène Schjerfbeck; Helene Sofia Schjerfbeck

Professions: Figure painter; Painter; Portrait painter

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  Helene Schjerfbeck Finnish 1862-1946 , Tanssiaiskengät; Balskorna (dancing shoes) oil on canvas

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  Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946)

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  Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946)

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  Helene Schjerfbeck (Finnish, 1862-1946)

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Helene Schjerfbeck Biography

(b Helsinki, 10 July 1862; d Saltsjöbaden, Stockholm, 23 Jan 1946). Finnish painter. In 1873 she began to study at the Finnish Art Society drawing school in Helsinki. On the death of her father in 1876, she was forced to seek help to finance her studies. In 1877 she went to the private academy of Adolf von Becker (1831–1909) in Helsinki, and her work was first shown in public in 1879. In the autumn of 1880 she went to Paris to study at the Académie Trélat de Vigne under Léon Bonnat and Jean-Léon Gérôme and in 1881 moved to the Académie Colarossi, studying under Gustave Courtois (fl 1852–1908) and Raphael Collin (1850–1916). In Brittany that summer, she painted a large oil, A Boy Feeding his Little Sister (Helsinki, Athenaeum A. Mus.); although it did not receive critical acclaim, it was bought immediately.

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