Fanny Churberg

Fanny Churberg ( born December 12, 1845 in Vaasa, † May 10, 1892 in Helsinki) was a Finnish landscape painter.

Life

Fanny Churberg decided at an early age to become an artist and graduated according to their attendance at school in a girls' boarding school to study at the Art Academy in Helsinki. They funded this training by the legacy of her father who was wealthy as a respected doctor and died early. In 1867 she went to Dusseldorf to study at the art academy. As these, however, no accepted women, she took private lessons.

From 1876 to 1878 she traveled to Paris, after which she returned to Finland in order to engage in the Finnish Art Society in Helsinki and exhibit there. 1879, they got such an exhibition first prize for a painting, otherwise the interest of the Finns at their pictures in their lifetime was very reluctant. In 1880 she heard the painting completely and sat down below for the establishment of a Finnish crafts a. She founded pottery and weaving and also wrote in journal articles about the Finnish crafts.

1892 Fanny died Churberg in Helsinki. It was not until 1919 it was rediscovered as an artist and considered by a large memorial exhibition.

Painting

Although Fanny Churberg had learned in the tradition of the Düsseldorf school, she never tried to take advantage of the prevailing style of natural, composed in the studio landscape painting. In this they differed, for example, her fellow countryman Werner Holmberg (1830-1860), who lived about the same time and also studied in Dusseldorf. She sat instead on the representation of the wild nature and emphasized this by their style, in which she used powerful colors and thick brushstrokes. In this way, the images were almost expressionistic and were similar to those of the resulting many years later paintings by Emil Nolde and Edvard Munch.

Thematically, she preferred especially the representation of the rugged terrain in the late autumn and winter, while they mainly painted scenes of twilight, the sunset or the moon.