About Hjalmar Munsterhjelm
Lived 1840 – 1905 (aged 64). Hjalmar Munsterhjelm was a Finnish painter and draftsperson.
Magnus Hjalmar Munsterhjelm (19 October 1840 – 2 April 1905) was a Finnish landscape painter.
Biography Munsterhjelm was born at Toivoniemi Manor of Tuulos, Finland. He was the son of Gustaf Riggert Munsterhjelm (1806-1872) and his wife and Mathilda Charlotta Eleonora von Essen (1818-1895). His father first sent him to the Turku Maritime School. In the early 1860s, he studied art at Düsseldorf with Werner Holmberg (1830-1860) and Oswald Achenbach (1827-1905) and at Karlsruhe under Hans Gude.
His painted landscapes were influenced by the romanticism of the Düsseldorf school, often featuring nature as a mood rather than a realistic subject. His landscape "October Evening After the First Snowfall" (1883) was purchased by Alexander III in 1885; the painting is now in the Ateneum in Helsinki. His work "Evening of the First Spring" was also on display at the 1900 Paris Exposition.
He kept being highly productive all the way until his death in 1905 in Helsinki.
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Finnish painter (1840-1905)
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Hjalmar Munsterhjelm was born on 19 October 1840 in Tuulos.
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Hjalmar Munsterhjelm died on 2 April 1905 in Helsinki.
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