Amélie Lundahl

Helga Amélie Lundahl
Helga Amélie Lundahl
	Lundahl in the 1880s
Born	26 May 1850; Oulu, Finland
Died	20 August 1914 (aged 64); Helsinki, Finland
Nationality	Finnish
Known for	Painting

Helga Amélie Lundahl (26 May 1850 – 20 August 1914)^[1] was a Finnish painter.

Biography

She was born in Oulu,^[2]^[3] the youngest of eleven children.^[4] Her mother died when she was three months old and her father, Abraham, a Town Representative (public prosecutor) died when she was eight.

From 1860 to 1862, she attended the "Svenska Privatskolan" in Oulu. From 1872 to 1876 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, with a brief stay at the School of Art and Design in Stockholm, which was made possible by a travel grant. Another travel grant enabled her to go to Paris, where she studied at the Académie Julian with Tony Robert-Fleury, among others, from 1877 to 1881. She stayed there for twelve years altogether, and Brittany became her favorite location for painting.

After returning to Finland in 1889, she and Victor Westerholm helped to found the "Önningebykolonin", an art colony in the village of Önningeby in Åland.^[4]

She died in 1914 in Helsinki.^[4] It is believed that her death was caused by leukemia.^[1]

Gallery

Girl from Brittany, 1880
Outside the Church, 1880
Girl in a Leaf Forest, early 1880s
Rendez-vous, 1880s
Spring; Girl in a Birch Forest, unknown date
Boys by the Shore, 1881
Landscape, 1881
Head of a Girl, Brittany, 1882
Breton Girl (Sock Knitter), 1883
Breton Girl Holding a Jar, 1884^[5]
The Garden Girl, 1885
Fisher Girl, 1880s
Before a Swim, 1885
In the Midst of Flowers, 1887
Tambourine Dancer, 1888
Castle Ruins (Visby City Wall), possibly 1888
Girl Watering Flowers, possibly early 1890s
Portrait of Edvin Kaslin [fi], around 1900

References

^ ^a ^b "LUNDAHL, Helga AMELIE". Register of the Artists' Association of Finland. Archived from the original on 6 September 2017. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
^ Rouhiainen, Anne (18 July 1998). "Arki täynnä unta ja romantiikkaa". Helsingin Sanomat. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
^ Ojansivu, Merja (9 July 1998). "Amélie rakasti maalaamista ulkosalla". Helsingin Sanomat. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c Konttinen, Riitta. "Lundahl, Amélie". Publicerad i Biografiskt lexikon för Finland. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
^ Pääkkönen, Sirpa (5 August 2019). "Kultakauden taitavat naiset lumoavassa Halosenniemessä – Naisia tupa täynnä -näyttely jatkuu syyskuulle". Kulttuuritoimitus. Retrieved 4 August 2020.