Victor Westerholm
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Victor Westerholm (4 January, 1860 - 19 November, 1919) was a Finnish landscape painter.
Life
Victor Westerholm was born at Turku, Finland on January 4, 1860 and died in Turku on 19 November, 1919.
He first studied under Eugen Dücker in Düsseldorf. He then became a student of Jules Joseph Lefebvre at the Académie Julian in Paris. (1)
He taught at the school of the Society of Art in Turku and was the director of an art museum in Helsinki.(1)
He often painted winter landscapes and sunsets in the archipelago of Åland , where he had his summer residence.(1)
In 1886, he invited several artists to his summer home, "Tomtebo" in Önningeby, Åland, thus beginning the famous artists colony there. (2)
Sources
(1) The International Studio, v. 33 No. 130 - December, 1907 edited by Charles Holme, Guy Eglinton, Peyton Boswell, William Bernard McCormick, Henry James Whigham Victor Westerholm, Finnish Landscape Painter Google Books
(2) visitaland.com - The Önningeby colony http://www.visitaland.com/onningebymuseum/en