Victoria Åberg

Training under Hans Gude, Berndt Godenhjelm and Alexander Michelis is recorded. The recorded working language is Finnish. Work by Victoria Åberg is recorded in the collections of Finnish National Gallery, Lönnström Art Museum, City of Pori art collection and Tikanoja Art Museum. Distinctions recorded are Ducat Prize.

• Birth Name — Ulrika Victoria Åberg • Born — 24 February 1824 • Birthplace — Loviisa, Grand Duchy of Finland • Died — 15 July 1892 • Place of death — Weimar, Germany • Movement — Düsseldorf school of painting • Awards — * Dukaattipalkinto (1861) • First Class Artist (1866)

Åberg began training at the Finnish Art Society Drawing School (Suomen Taideyhdistyksen Piirustuskoulu) as part of its first cohort in its opening year, 1848. Afterwards she continued her studies first in Düsseldorf under Hans Gude, and later, funded by a state stipend, in Dresden and Weimar throughout the late 1850s and early 1860s.

Åberg's public debut came in 1849. Alongside her artistic pursuits, Åberg worked as a secondary school arts teacher from the mid-1840s until early 1860s. After that, she lived and worked outside of Finland — mostly in Germany, but also spending some years in Italy — more or less continuously from the mid-1860s onwards, at least in part because she felt that her Düsseldorfer work was not sufficiently appreciated in her home country.

Victoria Åberg is recorded as having received Ducat Prize.