Ellen Favorin
Elsa "Ellen" Favorin (31 December 1853 Kuorevesi – 27 November 1919 Lohja) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish painter.
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Ellen Favorin
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- Name
- Ellen Favorin
- Birth Name
- Elsa Favorin
- Born
- 31 December 1853
- Birthplace
- Kuorevesi, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire (now Finland)
- Died
- 27 November 1919
- Place of death
- Lohja, Finland
- Field
- Painting
- Nationality
- Finland.
- Occupation
- painter.
- Teachers
- Eilif Peterssen and Adelsteen Normann.
- Languages
- Finnish.
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Elsa "Ellen" Favorin (31 December 1853 Kuorevesi – 27 November 1919 Lohja) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish painter.
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• Name — Ellen Favorin • Birth Name — Elsa Favorin • Born — 31 December 1853 • Birthplace — Kuorevesi, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire (now Finland) • Died — 27 November 1919 • Place of death — Lohja, Finland • Field — Painting
Biography
Biography
Her parents were Anders Abraham Favorin and Lovisa Ingman. After attending the painting schools in Helsinki and Stockholm, she continued her studies in Munich, Düsseldorf and at the Académie Julian in Paris. She often painted landscapes and was one of the artists who joined Victor Westerholm in the artists' colony at Önningeby on the island of Åland. She died together with her sister in a fire at their home in Lohja in 1919.
Ellen Favorin - Woman on the Beach - A V 4747 - Finnish National Gallery
Ellen Favorin · http: kokoelmat.fng.fi/app?si=A+V+4747
Photograph of the Finnish painter Ellen Favorin
Robert Roesler · https: Image record page in Finna: musketti.M012%3AHK19351023%3A29 Image record page in Finna: museovirasto.4E37AED4D47C46987E0D237825FBFAA9
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1853
Ellen Favorin born at Inari.
1900
Lake landscape is dated 1900.
1919
Ellen Favorin died at Lohja.
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The authorities additionally record the headings E. Favorin, Elsa Favorin and Elsa "Ellen" Favorin. Her recorded languages were Finnish and Swedish.
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