Victorine Nordenswan
Victorine Nordenswan | |
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 Victorine Nordenswan (c. 1860s) | |
| Born | 14 June 1838 |
| Died | 25 August 1872 (aged 34) Hämeenlinna |
| Alma mater | Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts |
| Movement | Düsseldorf school of painting |
| Awards | Dukaattipalkinto (1865, 1867) |
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Victorine Nordenswan (14 June 1838 - 25 August 1872) was a Finnish painter in the Düsseldorf tradition, specialising in religious themes, and notable as one of the first professional female artists of Finland.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]Hildur Antoinette Victorine Nordenswan was born on 1 June 1838 in Hämeenlinna, Grand Duchy of Finland, the third child and second daughter of Jacobina Fredrica von Numers (1808-1879) and embassy counsellor Johan Henrik Nordenswan (1801-1862).[3]
Nordenswan received her initial education at a girls' school in Hämeenlinna, followed by attending an art school run by painters Berndt Godenhjelm (1799-1881) and Erik Johan Löfgren in the early 1860s. She trained at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm in 1860–1862.[1][4] In 1864 she went to Düsseldorf, where she became a private pupil of Otto Mengelberg and Eduard Gebhardt.[3] During the winters of 1867/1869 and 1869/1870 Nordenswan travelled back to Finland and returned once more during the Franco-Prussian War.[3]
Career
[edit]Visual art in the mid-19th century was male-dominated, but Nordenswan was considered to be exceptionally talented, and widely expected to make a significant career as an artist.[2]
Nordenswan's public debut of her work was in 1861, and she won in the Finnish Art Society's Ducat Contest the second prize in 1865, followed by the first prize in 1867.[4]
Among her best-known works are St. John the Evangelist (1866) and Women Mourning at Christ’s Grave (1868), both today housed at the Finnish National Gallery.[5]
Nordenswan's promising career was cut short by her death from tuberculosis at the early age of 34.[2]
Gallery
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St. John the Evangelist (1866) -
Women Mourning at Christ’s Grave (1868) -
St. Agnes of Rome, copy after Jusepe de Ribera, detail, 1868
References
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- ^ a b "Nordenswan, Viktorine". Uppslagsverket.fi (in Swedish). Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- ^ a b c "Nordenswan, Victorine (1838-1872)". Kansallisbiografia.fi (in Finnish). National Biography of Finland. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- ^ a b c Bettina Baumgärtel (2011). Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule und ihre internationale Ausstrahlung 1819 - 1918: die Publikation erscheint anlässlich der Ausstellung Weltklasse. Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819 - 1918, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, 24. September 2011 - 22. Januar 2012. Ausstellung Weltklasse. Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819 - 1918. Petersberg: Imhof. ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9.
- ^ a b "Victorine Nordenswan". Artist Register. Artists' Association of Finland. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- ^ "Women Mourning at Christ's Grave". Finnish National Gallery. Retrieved 7 August 2021.