Amélie Lundahl

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

Helga Amélie Lundahl
Lundahl in the 1880s
Born	(1850-05-26)26 May 1850 Oulu, Finland
Died	20 August 1914(1914-08-20) (aged 64) Helsinki, Finland
Nationality	Finnish
Known for	Painting

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.

Lundahl in 1860–1875

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.

Portrait by Maria Wiik, 1879

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]

At her home in 1898

Lundahl in 1914

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

Gallery

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

See also

• Golden Age of Finnish Art
• Finnish art