Mathilda Rotkirch

Mathilda Rotkirch
Mathilda Rotkirch
	Mathilda Rotkirch by Robert Wilhelm Ekman (1848)
Born	28 July 1813; Borgå, Finland
Died	6 March 1842 (aged 28); Turku, Finland
Nationality	Finnish
Known for	Painting

Mathilda Wilhelmina Rotkirch (28 July 1813 – 6 March 1842) was a Finnish painter. She is often referred to as the first female artist in Finland. She principally made portrait paintings.^[1]

Biography

Rotkirch was born in Borgå, Finland. She was the daughter of Baron Karl Fredrik Rotkirch [fi] and Augusta Fredrika Elisabeth Rotkirch née Aminoff.^[1]

In the spring of 1833, she made his first study trip to Stockholm where she studied with Johan Gustaf Sandberg and Robert Wilhelm Ekman. She was a student at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts between 1833 and 1838. She took a study trip in 1840–1841 along with artist Sophie Aminoff (1808–1862) and her husband Carl Reuterskiöld, on a journey through Europe. They visited Lübeck, Hamburg, Kassel, Strasbourg, Bern, Geneva, Milan and Paris, where she studied with the Swedish painter and designer Per Wickenberg (1812–1846).^[2]^[3]

She died of a lung ailment in Turku during 1842 at the age of 28. She was buried in the family graveyard at Näsebacken next to Porvoo.^[1]

Rotkirch was represented in an exhibition in Finland in 1847. She is represented at both Ateneum and Cygnaeus Gallery.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Rotkirch, Mathilda". Biografiskt lexikon för Finland. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
^ Gerda Boethius. "Sophie Adolphine Adlersparre". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
^ "Petter Gabriel Wickenberg". Svenska Familj-Journalen. Retrieved January 1, 2019.

Literature

Kuurne, Jouni: Mathilda Rotkirch: Taiteilija ja matkailija. 2002.
- Jouni Kuurne; Teresia Ijäs (2002). Mathilda Rotkirch : konstnärinna och resenär / Jouni Kuurne ; [översättning från finska: Teresia Ijäs ...]. Skrifter utgivna av Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland (in Swedish). Helsinki: Society of Swedish Literature in Finland. ISBN 951-583-077-X. ISSN 0039-6842. Wikidata Q113529993.
Westermarck, Helena: Mathilda Rotkirch. Historiska och litteraturhistoriska studier 2, pp. 8–78. Svensk Litteratursällskap i Finland, Helsingfors 1926.
Willner-Rönnholm, Margareta: Målarinnan Mathilda Rotkirch: En bortglömd pionjär? Finsk Tidskrift, 1/2003.