Girl with big eyes
(Karin), 1928. Watercolor and coal on paper. Villa Gyllenberg/Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation.
”The
picture looked more at me than I looked at the picture, stayed in my mind.”
These
words by the author Paavo Rintala are not written about Helene Schjerfbeck but they come always to my mind when I
see her paintings.
This year
celebrates the 150 anniversary of the birth of one of the most important icons
in Finnish art. Now she is famous all over the world, but as it so often
happens, during her lifetime she was not rich. There were years when she could
hardly keep her house warm, nowadays her paintings are so expensive she could
buy a house, even several ones.
Of the
many exhibitions of her art during this year I mention only two.
This is
the last week to see The Spirituality in Art - Helene Schjerfbeck exhibition at Gyllenberg Art
Museum, the private museum owned by Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation in
Kuusisaari. It is open until Sunday May 20th, and during this last week it is open daily.
gyllenbergs.fi/en/spirituality-schjerfbeck-english
In the
beginning of June Ateneum Art Museum is presenting the largest ever exhibition of Helene
Schjerfbeck´s art. Check the details here: www.ateneum.fi/default.asp?showInfo=14385&docId=12532
An
interesting view into her art opens the new edition of Helene Schjerfbeck
Malleja Modeller Models (WSOY). The lovely book tells about her models not only in stories
but also in the old photographs.
wsoy.fi/yk/products/show/204851
But how did the artist really look, how did she see herself?
This most touching
video about the changing faces of the artist in her 13 self-portraits shows her uncompromising way to paint
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