Self-portrait, 1939 by Helene Schjerfbeck. Artwork Type: Painting;

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Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) réalisa une quarantaine d'autoportraits sur une période de soixante-dix ans. Peu connue en France, sa réputation est essentielle en Finlande, son pays d'origine. Voici donc présentés aujourd'hui neuf autoportraits et...

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Oil on canvas; 36 x 32 cm. Helene Schjerfbeck was a Finnish painter. She is most widely known for her realist works and self-portraits, and less well known for her landscapes and still lifes. Throughout her long life, her work changed dramatically. "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…

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. Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) 1890 Photo Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) painted at least 36 self-portraits throughout her career. The older she became, the more isolated she became. Her later portraits reveal a sort of visual confrontational self-analysis. Between 1939 & 1945, not long before her death, she produced her most impressive series of self-portraits, in which she records her own physical deterioration with shocking honesty. Her facial features become increasingly hollow, until…

It's About Time: Woman Artist - Self-Portraits - Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946)

Quelle: DIE ZEIT, Ausgabe 15. Februar 2007 =============================== Begleittext: "Das noch Entdeckungen möglich sind, ist das Glück der Kunst. Helene Schjerfbeck, der großen finnischen Malerin, ist dieser Band gewidmet. (Hrsg. Annabelle Görgen/Hubertus Gaßner; Hirmer Verlag, München 2007; 208 S., 34,50€). Aufsätze, Bild- und Zeittafeln führen ein in ihr Werk. 'Meine Bilder sind nicht schön, ich sollte wundervolle weiche Schatten suchen, aber ich gebe nur mein dunkles armes Inneres'…

. Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) 1890 Photo Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) painted at least 36 self-portraits throughout her career. The older she became, the more isolated she became. Her later portraits reveal a sort of visual confrontational self-analysis. Between 1939 & 1945, not long before her death, she produced her most impressive series of self-portraits, in which she records her own physical deterioration with shocking honesty. Her facial features become increasingly hollow, until…

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