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The hauntingpaintings of Helene Schjerfbeck, on show in the final leg of a travelling tourthat has already attracted thousands of visitors in Hamburg and The Hague, maycome as a surprise to many. Few outside the Nordic world would recognise thework of this Finnish artist who died in 1946. More people should. The 120 workshave at their core 20 self-portraits, half the number she painted in all. Thefirst, dated 1880, is of a wide-eyed teenager eager to absorb everything. Thelast is a sighting of the artist’s ghost-to-be; Schjerfbeck died the year after it was made. Together thisseries is among the most moving and accomplished autobiographies-in-paint.
Precociouslygifted, Schjerfbeck was 11 when she entered the Finnish Art Society’s drawing school. "TheWounded Warrior in the Snow", a history painting, was bought by a privatecollector and won her a state travel grant when she was 17. Schjerfbeck studiedin Paris, went on to Pont-Aven, Brittany, where she painted for a year, then toTuscany, Cornwall and St Petersburg. During her 1887 visit to St Ives,Cornwall, Schjerfbeck painted "The Convalescent". A child wrapped ina blanket sits propped up in a large wicker chair, toying with a sprig. Thepicture won a bronze medal at the 1889 Paris World Fair and was bought by theFinnish Art Society. To a modern eye it seems almost sentimental and isredeemed only by the somewhat stunned, melancholy expression on the child’s face, which may have beeninspired by Schjerfbeck’s early experiences. At four, she fell down a flight of steps and neverfully recovered.
In 1890,Schjerfbeck settled in Finland. Teaching exhausted her, she did not like thework of other local painters, and she was further isolated when she took on thecare of her mother (who lived until 1923). "If I allow myself the freedomto live a secluded life", she wrote, "then it is because it has to bethat way." In 1902, Schjerfbeck and her mother settled in the small,industrial town of Hyvinkaa, 50 kilometres north of Helsinki. Isolation had onedesired effect for it was there that Schjerfbeck became a modern painter. Sheproduced still lives and landscapes but above all moody yet incisive portraitsof her mother, local school girls, women workers in town (profiles of apensive, aristocratic looking seamstress dressed in black stand out). And ofcourse she painted herself. Comparisons have been made with James McNeillWhistler and Edvard Munch. But from 1905, her pictures became pure Schjerfbeck.
"I havealways searched for the dense depths of the soul, that have not yet discoveredthemselves", she wrote, "where everything is still unconscious-thereone can make the greatest discoveries." She experimented with differentkinds of underpainting, scraped and rubbed, made bright rosy red spots; doingwhatever had to be done to capture the subconscious-her own and that of hermodels. In 1913, Schjerfbeck was rediscovered by an art dealer and journalist,Gosta Stenman. Once again she was a success. Retrospectives, touringexhibitions and a biography followed, yet Schjerfbeck remained little knownoutside Scandinavia. That may have had something to do with her indifference toher renown. "I am nothing, absolutely nothing", she wrote. "AllI want to do is paint". Schjerfbeck was possessed of a unique vision, andit is time the world recognised that.
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