The painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) is a national heroine in her native Finland. With a background in Realism, she incorporates impressionistic elements into her paintings, deliberately rejecting the national romanticism prevalent in Scandinavian art of her time and developing an individual style characterized mainly by international influences. German text. Die Malerin Helene Schjerfbeck (18621946) ist in ihrer Heimat Finnland eine Nationalheldin...