Fanny Churberg
Fanny Churberg (12 December 1845 – 10 May 1892) was a Finnish landscape painter.
Also recorded as Fanny Maria Churberg · F. Churberg · F. M. Churberg
Fanny Churberg

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- Name
- Fanny Churberg
- Born
- 12 December 1845
- Birthplace
- Vaasa, Finland
- Died
- 10 May 1892
- Place of death
- Helsinki, Finland
- Field
- Painting
- Movement
- Düsseldorf school of painting
- Nationality
- Grand Duchy of Finland
- Occupation
- painter · artist
- Known for
- A Clearing, Uusimaa Landscape · Moonlight, study · Alpine Lake · Waterfall · Winter Landscape and Sunset
- Languages
- Swedish · German · Finnish
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Biography
Biography
The recorded working language is Swedish, German and Finnish. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Helsinki. Works named in the authority record are A Clearing, Uusimaa Landscape, Moonlight, study, Alpine Lake, Waterfall and Winter Landscape, Sunset. Work by Fanny Churberg is recorded in the collections of Finnish National Gallery, HAM Helsinki Art Museum and Nationalmuseum.

Fanny Churberg - Rapakivikallioita, 1871
Fanny Churberg

Fanny Churberg - Talvimaisema, iltarusko, 1878
Fanny Churberg
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Fanny Churberg • Born — 12 December 1845 • Birthplace — Vaasa, Finland • Died — 10 May 1892 • Place of death — Helsinki, Finland • Field — Painting • Movement — Düsseldorf school of painting
Biography
Biography
Churberg was born on 12 December 1845, in Vaasa. Her father, Matias Churberg, was a doctor from a family of farmers and her mother Maria was the daughter of the vicar in Liperi parish, Nils Johan Perander. Fanny was the third of seven children. Four of her siblings died when they were young and so Fanny grew up with her two older brothers Torsten and Waldemar Churberg. Fanny was proud of her Ostrobothnian family and heritage and was planning along with her brothers on changing the surname to Kuurila according to the family's old estate. They never got around to it though. When Fanny was twelve her mother died and she had to take on large parts of the responsibility of being the matron of the house. Later on she got sent to a girls' school in Porvoo, but she returned to Vaasa when she was 17–18 years old. When she was 20 her father died. Fanny cared for him day and night during the last months of his life. After her father's death she and her brothers moved to Helsinki, where they lived with their aunt. • Illustration — Young Churberg in the early 1860s She started her artistic training in Helsinki in 1865 with private lessons from Alexandra Frosterus-Såltin, Emma Gyldén and Berndt Lindholm. Her studies continued in Düsseldorf, Germany, but she always returned to Finland to paint during the summer. She was also one of the first Finnish painters to study in Paris, France. Although Churberg remained to a large extent within the conventions of the Düsseldorf school of painting, she openly expressed her enthusiasm for the countryside and its dramatic situations, relying above all on colour and a fast brush technique to do so. The charged quality of her work differed sharply from that of her contemporaries, as did her subjects, for example the tense atmosphere before a thunderstorm in the open country or the deep, swampy heart of the forest. Churberg founded the Friends of Finnish Handicrafts in 1879. She urged Finnish women to join the Friends' effort to revive textile practice in Finland. Fanny Churberg's career ended suddenly in 1880. Her health was weaker and she took care of her brother Torsten who was suffering from tuberculosis. Torsten's death in 1882 made her quite lonely and her will to live lessened as did her energy. The other brother Waldemar, to whom she used to be very close, had married in 1877. The reason for ending her career might also have been the harsh criticism she had met before, but she never withdrew completely from the art circles. She did not however paint anymore after 1880, not even for her own amusement, but during her career she had still managed to produce over 300 paintings. Churberg died on 10 May 1892, in Helsinki.
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1845
Fanny Churberg born at Vaasa.
1892
Fanny Churberg died at Helsinki.
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Vaasa.
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Helsinki.
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Legacy
Churberg was included in the 2018 exhibit Women in Paris 1850-1900. In 2024, she was also included in the exhibition Against All Odds at the National Gallery of Denmark.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q139836: Fanny Churberg
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- “Fanny Churberg”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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scholarly publication
- Churberg, Fanny Maria, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2011
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Churberg, Fanny Maria, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011Crossref registry
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The authorities additionally record the headings Fanny Maria Churberg, F. Churberg and F. Her recorded languages were Swedish, German and Finnish. Work and production. Works recorded as notable number 5: A Clearing, Uusimaa Landscape, Moonlight, study, Alpine Lake, Waterfall and Winter Landscape, Sunset. Her recorded genre is portrait.
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