A brilliant painter and early modernist, Finnish artist Ellen Thesleff was taught to paint in the Realist style and went through a Symbolist phase, before maturing into a bold and fresh interpreter of colours and the potential of dissolved shapes in the early 20th century. She applied the palette of sunny Italy to the deep forests and lakes and landscapes of her Finnish childhood. An uncommonly dynamic combination! “My life is dark as a lake at night, with a few bright points,” Ellen Thesleff wrote in 1897, after incorporating the life and light of Florence, Rome and Napels in her oeuvre. It was these bright points that she developed relentlessly over the next fifty years. ... Ellen Thesleff was hit by a tram in a street in Helsinki in the autumn of 1952 and the neck of her femur was broken. She became a convalescent and died just over a year later on the 12th January 1954. She was a brilliant artist and an... http://www.sven-harrys.se/en/explore/konsthallen/ellen-thesleff/about-exhibition ... an expressionist Finnish painter, regarded as one of the leading Finnish modernist painters.... spent all of her life in Finland, France, and Italy, visiting Italy first in 1894.... She never married. ... In the beginning of her career, Thesleff worked on symbolist paintings in the style similar to Eugène Carrière, though she insisted she was most influenced by Édouard Manet. Later, she moved to expressionism and modernism, most notably landscapes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Thesleff) "... a Symbolist even before she went to Paris; simplicity and lyricism were inherent attributes of her art. While in Paris a soft greyish tonality and quiet chiaroscuro became predominant in her paintings. Symbolist fantasies à la Magnus Enckell were not for Ellen Thesleff. Her subject-matter consisted of simpler and more unassuming themes, without the 'strange contemplations' that she encountered in the works of her fellow artists." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQgwE306LDg undefined

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