Ateneum | Elga Sesemann
October 27 @ 16:00 – 18:00
Join us at Ateneum, the Finnish National Gallery, in exploring the newly opened exhibition of Elga Sesemann’s works.
We have a guide who takes us through the exhibition. This ends at 17.00 and then we all have time to look at more art or have a coffee in the café. Ateneum closes at 18.00. We pay for our own ticket and Museum card is possible. The guide is on the Club.
Elga Sesemann’s (1922–2007) life story is an exceptional and interesting example of a professional woman artist making a career for herself in Finland. Sesemann and her family moved to Helsinki as evacuees from Vyborg during the Winter War. The artist’s very first solo exhibition in Helsinki, in 1945, immediately drew the attention of critics and the art audience. The young artist, then 23 years old, was a promising, original colourist, whose paintings were compared to those of Edvard Munch and Helene Schjerfbeck. Sesemann’s artistic oeuvre is extensive, and she enjoyed an active career, with her expression constantly evolving, until the mid-1990s.
Text and image: Ateneum
Ateneum | Elga Sesemann
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