Helene Schjerfbeck

Helene Schjerfbeck was a Finnish painter. She is most widely known for her realist works and selfportraits, and less well known for her landscapes and still lifes. Throughout her long life, her work changed dramatically.

Helena Sofia Schjerfbeck was born onJuly 1862 in Helsinki, Finland , to Svante Schjerfbeck and Olga Johanna . When she was four she suffered a hip injury, which prevented her from attending school. She showed talent at an early age, and by the time she was eleven she was enrolled at the Finnish Art Society Drawing School, where her fees were paid by Adolf von Becker, who saw promise in her . At this School Schjerfbeck met Helena Westermarck.

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