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Ellen Thesleff

1869 - 1954

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Ellen Thesleff (5 October 1869 – 12 January 1954) was a Finnish expressionist painter, regarded as one of the leading Finnish modernist painters. Thesleff was born in Helsinki, the eldest daughter of five siblings and her father was an amateur painter. She took private lessons and then, in 1887, studied for two years at the Finnish Art Society Drawing School (now known as the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts) with Gunnar Berndtson. In 1891, Thesleff moved to Paris and enrolled into Académie Colarossi. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ellen Thesleff is the 1,252nd most popular painter (up from 1,583rd in 2019), the 152nd most popular biography from Finland (up from 214th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Finnish Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Ellen Thesleff ranks 1,252 out of 2,023. Before her are Franciabigio, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Arthur Hughes, Zacharie Astruc, Girolamo Savoldo, and Ludwig Richter. After her are Jacob de Gheyn II, Matthias Stom, Louise Moillon, François-Hubert Drouais, Gustaf Cederström, and Richard Wilson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Ellen Thesleff ranks 94. Before her are Henry Carton de Wiart, Prince Johann Georg of Saxony, Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Hendrikus Colijn, and Prince Baudouin of Belgium. After her are George Forbes, Yervant Odian, Edwin Lutyens, Mary Agnes Chase, Chittaranjan Das, and Henry Wood. Among people deceased in 1954, Ellen Thesleff ranks 86. Before her are Clara Westhoff, Jacob Tullin Thams, M. N. Roy, Édouard Le Roy, Omer Nishani, and Vagn Walfrid Ekman. After her are Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp, Oswald de Andrade, José Millán-Astray, Thành Thái, Émile Mâle, and Vilhelm Buhl.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Ellen Thesleff ranks 152 out of 751. Before her are Taina Elg (1930), Juho Vennola (1872), Leo Kinnunen (1943), Martin Wegelius (1846), Selim Palmgren (1878), and Juha Sipilä (1961). After her are Eero Lehtonen (1898), Aarre Merikanto (1893), Robert Kajanus (1856), Matti Pellonpää (1951), Esa-Pekka Salonen (1958), and Ernst Leonard Lindelöf (1870).

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Among PAINTERS In Finland

Among painters born in Finland, Ellen Thesleff ranks 8. Before her are Helene Schjerfbeck (1862), Albert Edelfelt (1854), Hugo Simberg (1873), Tom of Finland (1920), Amélie Lundahl (1850), and Elin Danielson-Gambogi (1861). After her are Magnus Enckell (1870), Pekka Halonen (1865), Fanny Churberg (1845), Helena Westermarck (1857), Maria Wiik (1853), and Vilho Lampi (1898).

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