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(*)Helene Schjerfbeck was a modernist painter, she is known for her realist works and self-portraits, and also for her landscapes and still lifes. Schjerbeck's birthday, July 10, is Finland's national day for the painted arts.

Throughout her long life, her work changed dramatically beginning with French-influenced realism and plein air painting. It gradually evolved towards portraits and still life paintings.
At the beginning of her career she often produced historical paintings, such as the Wounded Warrior in the Snow (1880), At the Door of Linköping Jail in 1600 (1882) and The Death of Wilhelm von Schwerin (1886).
Historical paintings were usually the realm of male painters, as was the experimentation with modern influences and French radical naturalism. As a result, her works produced mostly in the 1880s did not receive a favourable reception until later in her life.

"Her work starts with a dazzlingly skilled, somewhat melancholic version of late-19th-century academic realism…it ends with distilled, nearly abstract images in which pure paint and cryptic description are held in perfect balance". (Roberta Smith, New York Times, November 27, 1992)

Schjerbeck's birthday, July 10, is Finland's national day for the painted arts.

Image:Photograph of the Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck.
Date: early 1890s.Author: Anonymous / Centralarkivet för bildkonst

(*) source: Wikipedia