Autotranslation from the Finnish Wikipedia
Anna Dorothea (Dora) Wahlroos was a Finnish art from the golden age of less well-known, but talented female painters, at a time when men dominated the art world and the woman was not valued as an artist and an art school were closed to women. The women's movement was just raising its head.
Wahlroos' parents were the county surveyor Johan Henrik Wahlroos and Dorothée Augusta Henriette née Fehn. He lived in Turku and later in Kauniainen. He was two years engaged before he married Emil Wikström.
Wahlroos was educated at the Finnish Art Society drawing school in Turku, 1886-1889, under the leadership of Victor Westerholm 1889-1890, the Finnish Art Society drawing school in Helsinki in 1890-1891, under the leadership of Hermann Groeberin Munich, Germany, in 1911 and also in Paris. She learned landscape painting in the Åland Önningeby artist colony and made several study trips to Germany, France and Italy. She was engaged to be married with Emil Wikström and thus became acquainted with the Young Finns. She spent the summers 1889 and 1890 in Åland, exploring the Finnish-Swedish artist community and landscape painting.
Wahlroos participated in the Finnish Artists' first show, the first two, and the next seven work. When the engagement was broken at the same time broke the connection with the Young Finland group. Wikstström married Wahlroos friend Elin Alfhild Nordlund, but the women's friendship, however, remained. Dora Wahlroos was initially even more popular than Schjerfbeck, but over the years she was then forgotten, because she was considered old-fashioned, because her works were more realistic than when were in vogue trends. Wahlroos was a very prolific portrait painter. She has painted about a hundred portraits. Although the popularity declined, she became a charter form of images along well and was able to acquire the unmarried sisters in 1921 with a villa, Villa Gernheimin, in Kauniainen. In addition to painting, she was interested in interior design and gardening.
Wahlroos public works is Myrskylän church altarpiece (1896). Her production subjects were portraits, women and nudes, landscapes, self-portraits and descriptions of the people. Wahlroos production was the beginning of a career, when she was awarded the dukaattipalkinnolla. She later made a living for themselves and sister portraits is concluded, or any other type of missed time to painting. The old-age self-portrait from 1943, however, indicates that she was faithful to the ideals of her youth.
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