Seeing Silence
The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck
Seiten
2025
Metropolitan Museum of Art (Verlag)
978-1-58839-807-9 (ISBN)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (Verlag)
978-1-58839-807-9 (ISBN)
A groundbreaking introduction to Scandinavian artist Helene Schjerfbeck through the paintings and drawings that mark her as an exceptional modernist
Reevaluating the role of Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946) in the history of modernism, this publication highlights pivotal passages in her sixty-year career—from her training at the Finnish Art Society and remarkable early success to her studies in Paris and St. Ives and eventual return to Finland. There, in relative isolation, she pared down figure paintings and still lifes to near abstraction while introducing greater complexity in her canvases. Long celebrated in Finland and Sweden, Schjerfbeck is relatively unknown to the rest of the world. This book provides fresh insight into her idiosyncratic processes and discusses the series of haunting self-portraits that she painted in her final years, which stand among the twentieth century’s most extraordinary self-examinations. Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck introduces an extraordinary Nordic artist who realized her own unique vision with passionate determination, despite personal adversity and her homeland’s turbulent political history.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
(December 5, 2025–April 5, 2026)
Reevaluating the role of Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946) in the history of modernism, this publication highlights pivotal passages in her sixty-year career—from her training at the Finnish Art Society and remarkable early success to her studies in Paris and St. Ives and eventual return to Finland. There, in relative isolation, she pared down figure paintings and still lifes to near abstraction while introducing greater complexity in her canvases. Long celebrated in Finland and Sweden, Schjerfbeck is relatively unknown to the rest of the world. This book provides fresh insight into her idiosyncratic processes and discusses the series of haunting self-portraits that she painted in her final years, which stand among the twentieth century’s most extraordinary self-examinations. Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck introduces an extraordinary Nordic artist who realized her own unique vision with passionate determination, despite personal adversity and her homeland’s turbulent political history.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
(December 5, 2025–April 5, 2026)
Dita Amory is Robert Lehman Curator in Charge of the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.11.2025 |
|---|---|
| Co-Autor | Patricia Berman, Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff, Zoe de Bretagne, Charlotte Hale |
| Zusatzinfo | 110 color illus. |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 267 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-58839-807-2 / 1588398072 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-58839-807-9 / 9781588398079 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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