Victor Westerholm

Victor Axel Westerholm (4 January 1860 Turku – 19 November 1919 Turku) was a Finnish landscape painter, especially known for founding the Önningeby artists' colony.[1]

Victor Westerholm
Westerholm in 1914–1917
Born
Victor Axel Westerholm

(1860-01-04)4 January 1860
Turku, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire (now Finland)
Died19 November 1919(1919-11-19) (aged 59)
Turku, Finland
NationalityFinnish
Known forPainting

Biography

Victor Axel Westerholm was born in Turku in 1860. He was the son of Viktor Westerholm, a ship's master, and Maria Westerholm (née Andersson). As a child he spent a lot of time at the island of Nagu in the Finnish Archipelago. From 1869 to 1878 he studied at the Finnish Art Society's Drawing School in Turku, under Robert Wilhelm Ekman (1808–1873) and Thorsten Waenerberg (1846–1917); and as a young man he studied under Eugen Dücker (1841–1916) in Düsseldorf from 1878-1880. Much later he studied under Jules Joseph Lefebvre(1836–1911) at the Académie Julian in Paris from 1888-1890.[2][3]

In 1888 he became a teacher at the school of the Society of Art in Turku, and in 1891 became the director of the Turku art museum.[2]

Painting in 1907

He often painted winter landscapes and sunsets at his summer home, "Tomtebo", at the village of Önningeby in the Municipality of Jomala on the Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea. In 1886, he invited several artists to Tomtebo thus beginning the Önningeby artists' colony (Önningebykolonin). Visiting artists who spent time in Önningeby include J.A.G. Acke, Hanna Rönnberg, Elin Danielson-Gambogi, Edvard Westman and Elias Muukka. Since 1992 Önningeby-museet in Önningeby has exhibited a permanent exhibition of works by the Önningeby artists’ colony.[2][4][5]

Westerholm was an instructor at Turku drawing school in 1887–1898 and 1904–1917. In 1891, he was elected as the curator of the newly formed Art Association in Turku.

Personal life
With his wife Hilma in 1884
Portrait of his wife Hilma by Elin Danielson-Gambogi, 1888
[note 1]
With their daughter Greta in 1889

In 1885, he married Hilma Alander. They had one daughter, Greta Westerholm. Westerholm lived in Turku where he died in November 1919 from a flu that turned into pneumonia.[3]

Works
  • Werner Holmberg's Graveside, 1882
  • In the Studio, 1883
  • Autumn Landscape, 1883
  • An October Day in Åland, 1885
  • Eckerö Post Quay, 1885 (fi)[7]
  • Cows in a Birch Forest, 1886
  • Landscape from Åland, 1895
  • Seal Hunting, 1900
  • Evening Sun, 1901
  • Kymi River, 1902
  • Scene from Hirvensalo, 1903
  • Drying Laundry in the Sun, 1900s
  • Vallinkoski Rapids, 1917 (fi)
  • Self-Portrait, 1919

See also

Notes
  1. The painting won a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1889.[6]

References
  1. "Victor Westerholm". Biografiskt lexikon för Finland. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
  2. The International Studio, v. 33 No. 130 – December, 1907. edited by Charles Holme, Guy Eglinton, Peyton Boswell, William Bernard McCormick, Henry James Whigham. Victor Westerholm, Finnish Landscape Painter. Google Books
  3. Reitala, Aimo (23 September 2015). "Westerholm, Victor (1860 - 1919)". Kansallisbiografia. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  4. "The Önningeby artists' colony". konstmuseum. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
  5. "visitaland.com – The Önningeby colony". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2010-11-04.
  6. Kuvaja, Sini (18 February 2017). "Tunnetko tämän taiteen kultakauden mestarin Noormarkusta? Aikansa kapinallinen eli ja maalasi rohkeasti". Satakunnan Kansa. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  7. Valjakka, Timo (30 May 2020). "Hienovaraisesti poliittinen maalaus katsoo länteen Venäjän keisarikunnan läntisimmällä kohdalla Ahvenanmaalla". Helsingin Sanomat. Retrieved 4 August 2020.

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