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Victoria Åberg (1824-1892) was a Finnish landscape painter in the Düsseldorf tradition, notable as one of the first Finnish women to achieve a sustained professional career as an artist.[2][3]

Victoria Åberg
Victoria Åberg (c. 1860s)
Born	Ulrika Victoria Åberg[1] (1824-02-24)24 February 1824[1] Loviisa, Grand Duchy of Finland
Died	15 July 1892(1892-07-15) (aged 68)[1] Weimar, Germany
Movement	Düsseldorf school of painting
Awards	Dukaattipalkinto (1861) First Class Artist (1866)

Education

Åberg began training at the Finnish Art Society Drawing School (Suomen Taideyhdistyksen Piirustuskoulu) as part of its first cohort in its opening year, 1848.[4] Afterwards she continued her studies first in Düsseldorf under Hans Gude, and later, funded by a state stipend, in Dresden and Weimar throughout the late 1850s and early 1860s.[4][1]

Career

Åberg's public debut came in 1849.[4]

Alongside her artistic pursuits, Åberg worked as a secondary school arts teacher from the mid-1840s until early 1860s.[4][1]

After that, she lived and worked outside of Finland — mostly in Germany, but also spending some years in Italy — more or less continuously from the mid-1860s onwards, at least in part because she felt that her Düsseldorfer work was not sufficiently appreciated in her home country.[2][4]

Awards and honours

In 1861, Åberg was only the second artist to win first prize in the Finnish Art Society's Ducat Contest [fi].[4]

In 1866, she was awarded the honorary title of First Class Artist by the Imperial Academy of Arts of St Petersburg.[4]

Gallery

References

На других языках

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[de] Victoria Åberg

Ulrika Victoria Åberg (* 23. Februar 1824 in Loviisa, Großfürstentum Finnland; † 15. Juli 1892 in Weimar, Herzogtum Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) war eine finnische Landschaftsmalerin der Düsseldorfer Schule. Neben Alexandra Frosterus-Såltin gilt sie als erste wirklich professionelle Künstlerin Finnlands.[1]

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- [en] Victoria Åberg

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[fr] Victoria Åberg

Ulrika Victoria Åberg, née le 23 février 1824 à Loviisa dans le Grand-duché de Finlande et morte le 15 juillet 1892 à Weimar dans le Grand-duché de Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, était une peintre paysagiste finlandaise de l'école de Düsseldorf. Avec Alexandra Frosterus-Såltin, elle est considérée comme la première artiste finlandaise véritablement professionnelle[1].

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