Helene Schjerfbeck, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Helene Schjerfbeck

Finnish painter

Date of Birth: 10-Jul-1862

Place of Birth: Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Date of Death: 23-Jan-1946

Profession: painter

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Helena Sofia (Helene) Schjerfbeck (pronounced [he'le?n '?ærvbek] (listen); July 10, 1862 – January 23, 1946) 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, New York Times, November 27th 1992)