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Place of Birth: Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
About Marcus Collin
- Gustaf Marcus Collin (18 November 1882, Helsinki – 22 September 1966, Kauniainen) was an artist from Finland.
- He was one of the central members of Novemberists, a group of Finnish expressionists.Collin was born in Helsinki in educated, Swedish-speaking family.
- His father was a civil servant.
- Becoming an artist was not obvious for Collin.
- He studied law, but did not want to become a civil servant in Finland as A Grand Duchy ruled by Russia.
- He worked as a journalist, and tried to study architecture, but the mathematics classes were too challenging for him.
- Then he changed his studies to study art, first in Helsinki later in Paris.
- He made four elongated trips in continental Europe, and on his fourth visit to Paris he enrolled in Académie Ranson where he was taught by Paul Sérusier.
- Sérusier drew his attention to composition, and for a while even the use of colour in Collin's work shows influence of Sérusier.
- The paintings of life in archipelago painted in bright colours were Collin's final breakthrough as an artist.Collin became a member of group of artists led by Tyko Sallinen.
- The group took later the name November Group.
- In middle of 1910-decade the group started to use more ascetic palettes, and the colour scale of Collin was the most minimal of them all.
- He only used a few dark shades.After 1921 Collin gradually abandoned his gray and brown palette by adding more bright colours.
- When he became older, his style became more realistic.Collin is known for his paintings of people.
- Many of these illustrate literature, such as Aleksis Kivi's Seven Brothers or Cervantes' Don Quijote.
- He portrayed factory workers and farmhands as faceless representatives of their social class.Collin was given an honorary title of professor in 1953.
- He received the Swedish Prince Eugen Medal in 1957.
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