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Berndt Abraham Godenhjelm
Berndt Abraham Godenhjelm

Berndt Abraham Godenhjelm

Finnish, 1799 - 1881

Berndt Abraham Godenhjelm was a Finnish painter.
Godenhjelm was born in Mäntyharju. His parents were the county surveyor Adolf Fredrik Godenhjelm and Maria Elizabeth Argillander. His wife was Alexandra Fredrika Hornborg (died 1871). Their son B. F. Godenhjelm became a teacher.

He studied landscape painting in Stockholm under Per Gustaf von Heideken, and later he studied copper drawing in Saint Petersburg. He initially began his career in the courts, where he worked as an articled clerks deputy judge in 1826. However soon after he transitioned to painting, primarily producing commissioned works for churches and portraits.

During his career, he painted dozens of altarpieces including ones for the Mäntyharju church, the Lovage church, the Liperi church (1842), the Jämsä church (1848), the Ikaalinen church (1874) and Finnish Lutheran Church in Sitka, Alaska founded by Uno Cygnaeus in 1840. Some of his works have been preserved at the Tampere Art Museum [fi] and the National Museum of Finland. Godenhjelm was head teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki drawing school from 1848 to 1869. He was an honorary member of the Artists' Association of Finland [fi] in 1864, and a board member of the Finnish Art Society from 1852 to 1868.

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Swedish Soldier And Polish Girl

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Galatea´s Triumph (1840 - 1849)

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Oikeus Ja Viattomuus (1832)

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Glory Of Christ

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On The Cross (1848)

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Resurrection Of Christ

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Transfiguration Of Christ (1859)

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Farm near Duivendrecht (c. 1916)

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