Elias Muukka

Elias Muukka (June 10, 1853 – October 2, 1938) was a Finnish painter. He mainly painted landscapes, preferably from the rural areas of Karelia and from Turku. [1]

Portrait of Muukka by Kaarlo Vuori, 1899

Biography

He was born at the village of Suontakainen in Lemi, Finland. He attended school at Vyborg. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki in 1874–1877, at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1877–1879 and at the Académie Colarossi in Paris 1880–1881.

Following his début in 1876, he exhibited regularly at the Finnish Artists Exhibitions from 1892 to 1938. His works were also presented in Paris (1889) and Stockholm (1929).[2] Muukka adopted the style of the Düsseldorf School. Typical of the Düsseldorf School, his work often includes landscapes of water scenes featuring figures. [3]

He worked as a drawing instructor at the seminar in Sordavala in Karelia in 1883-1885 and founded a private school for drawing and painting in Vaasa in 1886. He worked as an instructor at Turku between 1891–1918. Later he was a teacher at the upper secondary schools in Savonlinna and Mikkeli until 1927.

Muukka was one of the artists who joined Victor Westerholm (1860–1919) in the artists colony at Önningeby on the island of Åland in the late 1880s. He lived from 1933 until his death during 1938 at Helsinki.[4] [5]

  • Uthus på Övre Knapans (1888)
  • Natt i Önningeby (1888)
  • Kuutamomaisema (1914)
  • Väinämöinen's play, triptych from 1914
gollark: I didn't mention "money".
gollark: What?
gollark: (Sidenote: interestingly, apparently the development of farming actually led to significantly *worse* life for people for quite a long time, because it allowed much more population per land area, causing people to end up at a subsistence level and quite malnourished and stuff)
gollark: Modern supply chains are complex, and while we could not have those you would then lose out on stuff like microelectronics, medical things, and the economies of scale meaning you can have nice things cheaply.
gollark: How is that better? We need widescale coordination to do anything.

References
  1. "Muukka, Elias (1853-1938)". kansallisbiografia. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
  2. "Muukka, Elias" (in Finnish). Kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  3. "Elias Muukka" (in Swedish). Bukowskis. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  4. "Önningebykolonin - en bortglömd konstnärsgemenskap från landskapsmåleriets guldålder" (in Swedish). Tidskriften Skärgård, Årgång 24 Nr 4. 2001. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
  5. "Victor Westerholm". Biografiskt lexikon för Finland. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
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