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KIK-EN113 Knutson, Final Draft KIK-EN113 Autumn 2018 ST Museum information panel TT Group 2 Skoonelaissyntyinen Johan Knutson saapui Suomeen vuonna 1840 Johan Knutson, born in Skåne in southern Sweden, arrived in Finland in kutsuttuna osallistumaan Finland framstäldt i teckningar -kuvateoksen 1840 as he was invited to participate in creating the illustrated book laatimiseen. Oleskelu Suomessa jäi lopulta pysyväksi ja Knutson asui Finland framstäldt i teckningar (‘Finland in drawings’). This short visit was Porvoossa suurimman osan elämästään. Hän toimi vuodesta 1844 lähtien to last a lifetime however, much of it spent in Porvoo. He took up a post in vuosikymmeniä Porvoon lukion piirustuksenopettajana. 1844 at the Porvoo Gymnasium where he taught drawing for decades. Johan oli sorvarin poika, joka päätyi opiskelemaan piirtäjän ja litografin Johan was a wood turner’s son but ended up studying drawing and ammattia Lundiin. Tuona aikana hän kierteli kaupungin katuja ja piirteli lithography in Lund. During that time, he wandered about the city streets, tutkielmia ihmisistä ja eläimistä. Hän paneutui myös muotokuvauksen making sketches of people and animals. He also learned about the basics of alkeisiin. Opiskeltuaan piirustusta jonkin aikaa Kööpenhaminassa hän portrait painting. Having studied drawing in Copenhagen for a while, he matkusti Tukholmaan J. G. Sandbergin yksityisoppilaaksi, jolta hän sai oppia travelled to Stockholm to study under the tutelage of J. G. Sandberg, from erityisesti maalaustaiteessa. Hän perehtyi muotokuvamaalaukseen, whom he learned a lot, especially about painting. miniatyyreihin sekä etnografisesti tarkkaan kansankuvaukseen. He studied portrait painting, miniatures and ethnographically accurate Suomeen saavuttuaan Johan asettui aluksi asumaan Helsinkiin. Hän depictions of folk life. Upon arrival in Finland, Johan settled in Helsinki. He mainosti lehdissä tekevänsä näköisiä muotokuvia tilauksesta. Tässä hän ei placed advertisements in newspapers where he offered to paint realistic tosin aina kovin hyvin onnistunut, sillä varsinkin mittasuhteet heittivät. portraits on commission, but with little success, as the proportions were Oma kokonaisuutensa hänen tuotannossa ovat humoristiset often decidedly odd. Humorous paintings of folk life and caricatures of high laatukuvamaalaukset kansanelämästä sekä hienoston seuraelämää society, which had long been popular in Sweden, form a separate body of esittävät karikatyyrit, jollaiset olivat Ruotsissa suosittuja jo pitkään. his work. Group 1 Suomen sivistyneistö suosi ihanteellista maiseman ja kansankuvausta joten The intelligentsia in Finland preferred its scenery and commoners to be Johan joutui menestyäkseen sopeutumaan ja luopumaan vähitellen portrayed in an idyllic light. This meant that Johan had to adjust his style in burleskista huumorista. Hän ryhtyi maalaamaan maisemia. order to succeed and eventually had to give up on burlesque humour. He 1800-luvulla maisemamaalaus irtautui vähitellen itsenäiseksi aiheekseen ja turned to painting landscapes. th erityisesti romantiikan kaudella se sai keskeisen aseman maalaustaiteessa. In the 19 century, landscape painting gradually began to evolve into genre Formatted: English (United Kingdom) Aluksi Johan maalasi biedermeierin hengessä koskia ja linnoja sekä of its own, gaining popularity, especially during the Romantic era. Johan tilauksesta nk. maisemamuotokuvia esimerkiksi kartanoista. started out painting rapids and castles in the Biedermeier style and Hän sai 1860-luvun alussa vaikutteita Düsseldorfin romantiikasta ja ‘landscape portraits’ of manors on commission. erityisesti ruotsalaiselta Marcus Larsonilta, joka oleskeli Porvoossa noihin In the early 1860s he was influenced by the romanticism of the Düsseldorf Formatted: English (United Kingdom) aikoihin. Suuri taivas runsaine pilvineen ja dramaattiset valo- ja varjoefektit school of painting, in particular by the Swede Marcus Larson, who was ilmestyivät maalauksiin. Larsonin kanssa työskentelyn seurauksena alkoi staying in Porvoo at the time. Now his paintings featured large, sweeping syntyä vapaita luonnonmaisemia kuten kuutamo- ja merimaisemia. skies filled with an abundant cloudscape and the dramatic play of light and Myöhemmin hän keskittyi saariston ja tyynien idyllisten merenpoukamien shadow. Working with Larson led to a wider range of landscapes, such as kuvaamiseen. moonlit vistas and seascapes. Later on his paintings focused on depicting Hänen taiteelliseen tuotantoonsa kuuluu myös useita kansallisrunoilija J. L. the Finnish archipelago and calm, idyllic coves. Many of his works are of Runebergin ja hänen elinpiiriinsä liittyviä teoksia. Finland’s national poet, J.L. Runeberg, and his surroundings. Johan Knutson ’Cygnaeus Villa’ (c.1870) Cygnaeus Gallery, Helsinki (currently closed) .
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