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Maria Wiik - Elsa

Elsa (1882)

Maria Wiik (Finnish, 1853 – 1928)
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Maria Wiik

Maria Katarina Wiik was a Finnish painter. She worked principally with still life, genre images, landscape paintings and portraits.

Wiik was born in Helsinki. She was the daughter of architect Erik Johan Wik (1804–1876) and his wife Gustava Fredrika Meyer. She grew up in Brunnsparken and attended the Swedish language school Svenska fruntimmersskolan in Helsingfors. She then studied drawing with art professor Adolf von Becker.

Encouraged by her family, she studied art during 1874–1875 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. In 1875, she continued her art studies in Paris under Tony Robert-Fleury at the Académie Julian, one of the few private schools accepting women at the time.

From 1875 and in 1880 she became a substitute teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts of Helsinki. Her early paintings accepted for the Paris Salon in 1880 were portraits. In 1881, she painted a series of small paintings with a more psychological atmosphere including minute details. In spring 1889, she returned to Paris with her friend, the painter Helene Schjerfbeck to work among others with Puvis de Chavannes. In 1883–1884, they painted in England and then in 1889 at St Ives in Cornwall.

Her painting Out into the World won a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle (1900) and was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World by Walter Shaw Sparrow.

Her last trip to Paris took place in 1905. The rest of her life she spent in Helsinki. Her vision deteriorated, and in 1925 she underwent an eye surgery. Wiik died in Helsinki in 1928.

More Artworks by Maria Wiik

Smiling Girl’s Head

Smiling Girl’s Head (Side View)

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An unlikely duo

An unlikely duo (1882)

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Portrait Of The Artist´s Sister Miss Hilda Wiik

Portrait Of The Artist´s Sister Miss Hilda Wiik (1880)

Maria Wiik (Finnish, 1853 – 1928)
Out Into The World

Out Into The World (1889)

Maria Wiik (Finnish, 1853 – 1928)
Woman in the garden

Woman in the garden

Maria Wiik (Finnish, 1853 – 1928)
Portrait Of Hilda Wiik

Portrait Of Hilda Wiik (1881)

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Lying Cat, Mosse

Lying Cat, Mosse (1872 - 1873)

Maria Wiik (Finnish, 1853 – 1928)
Opera Singer Ida Basilier-Magelsen’s Portrait As Philine In Ambroise Thomas’ Opera Mignon

Opera Singer Ida Basilier-Magelsen’s Portrait As Philine In Ambroise Thomas’ Opera Mignon (1887)

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Nude lying female model

Nude lying female model (1904)

Maria Wiik (Finnish, 1853 – 1928)
Mountain landscape in the evening sky

Mountain landscape in the evening sky

Maria Wiik (Finnish, 1853 – 1928)
Nude Study, Standing Boy

Nude Study, Standing Boy (1903)

Maria Wiik (Finnish, 1853 – 1928)
Breton woman

Breton woman (1914)

Maria Wiik (Finnish, 1853 – 1928)
In The Church

In The Church (1884)

Maria Wiik (Finnish, 1853 – 1928)

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