Albert Edelfelt

Albert Edelfelt , born in 1854 with Kiiala and died in 1905 with Haikko, was a painter Finnish of the end of the 19th century.

Biography

Wire of a Swedish architect Albert Edelfelt follows the courses of drawing of Carl-Eneas Sjöstrand then to the Université Helsinki. He visits the Sweden and meets the painter of history Georg von Rosen former student of Henri Leys. In 1873 it improves with Antwerp during one year or it binds friendship with Emile Claus. In 1874, it leaves for Paris and follows the courses of Jean-Leon Gérôme. Its interest for the Peinture naturalist is growing, at the time of its second stay in 1881, it meets Gustave Courtois and Jules Bastien-Lepage for which it tests a true admiration regarding it as a marvellous colourist; it is then well introduced into the Parisian artistic medium and is often invited to dinners where it meets Emile Zola, Alphonse Daudet or Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and its success will encourage other Finnish artists to come to settle in Paris. Towards the end of the century it will illustrate Finnish patriotic accounts in answer to an always increasing expression come from Russia.

Some œeuvres in the museums

the Burial of a child , 1879,120x205 cm, Atenum Taidemuseo, Helsinki.
Women close to the church of Ruokolahti , 1887,131x159 cm, Atenum Taidemuseo, Helsinki.
Larin Paraske , 1893,70x107cm, Hâmeelinnan Taidemuseo Hâmeelinna.
Louis Pasteur , 1885,154x126cm, Paris, Museum of Orsay.
divine Service at the edge of the sea , 1888,122x180 cm, Prefecture of Colmar, France.
Day of December, 1888,52x87 cm, Paris, Museum of Orsay.

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