Victorine Nordenswan
Victorine Nordenswan | |
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![]() Victorine Nordenswan (c. 1860s) | |
Born | 14 June 1838 |
Died | 25 August 1872 Hämeenlinna | (aged 34)
Alma mater | Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts |
Movement | Düsseldorf school of painting |
Awards | Dukaattipalkinto (1865, 1867) |
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Victorine Nordenswan (1838—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]
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] However, she died of tuberculosis at age 34.[2]
Nordenswan trained at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm in 1860–1862, and from 1864 onwards in Düsseldorf.[1][3] Her public debut 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.[3]
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.[4]
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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 "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.