Ellen Thesleff

Place: Helsinki

Born: 1869

Death: 1954

Biography:

Ellen Thesleff (October 5, 1869 - January 12, 1954) was an expressionist Finnish 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 D...