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Helene Schjerfbeck

1862 - 1946

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Helena Sofia (Helene) Schjerfbeck (pronounced [heˈleːn ˈʃæ̌rvbek] ; July 10, 1862 – January 23, 1946) was a Finnish painter. A modernist painter, she is known for her realist works and self-portraits, and also for her landscapes and still lifes. Throughout her long life, her work changed dramatically beginning with French-influenced realism and plein air painting. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helene Schjerfbeck has received more than 208,555 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Helene Schjerfbeck is the 259th most popular painter (up from 343rd in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Finland (up from 31st in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Painter.

Helene Schjerfbeck is most famous for her paintings of working-class women and children.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Helene Schjerfbeck ranks 259 out of 1,421. Before her are Francesco Hayez, August Macke, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Domenichino, Orazio Gentileschi, and Jan van Goyen. After her are Luigi Russolo, Ivan Kramskoi, Guercino, Hendrick Avercamp, Jan Brueghel the Younger, and Simon Vouet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Helene Schjerfbeck ranks 19. Before her are Pyotr Stolypin, Niko Pirosmani, Joseph Merrick, J. Bruce Ismay, Hilma af Klint, and Louis Barthou. After her are Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Nikolai Yudenich, Henri Pirenne, Emilio Salgari, Daniel Swarovski, and Gustav Ritter von Kahr. Among people deceased in 1946, Helene Schjerfbeck ranks 35. Before her are Karl Hermann Frank, Gilbert N. Lewis, Ananda Mahidol, László Moholy-Nagy, Felix Hoffmann, and Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov. After her are Tomoyuki Yamashita, Wilhelm Marx, Milan Nedić, Ernest Thompson Seton, Empress Wanrong, and Alfred Stieglitz.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Helene Schjerfbeck ranks 21 out of 642. Before her are Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia (1917), Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (1895), Elias Lönnrot (1802), George Gaynes (1917), Arto Paasilinna (1942), and Ragnar Granit (1900). After her are Pehr Evind Svinhufvud (1861), Aki Kaurismäki (1957), Johan Gadolin (1760), Otto Wille Kuusinen (1881), Mikael Agricola (1510), and Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865).

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Among PAINTERS In Finland

Among painters born in Finland, Helene Schjerfbeck ranks 1. After her are Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865), Tom of Finland (1920), Albert Edelfelt (1854), Hugo Simberg (1873), Elin Danielson-Gambogi (1861), Magnus Enckell (1870), Pekka Halonen (1865), Helena Westermarck (1857), Amélie Lundahl (1850), and Vilho Lampi (1898).

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