Victoria Åberg

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| birth_name = Ulrika Victoria Åberg

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| birth_place = Loviisa, Grand Duchy of Finland

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| movement = Düsseldorf school of painting

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Victoria Åberg (24 February 1824 – 15 July 1892) was a Finnish landscape painter in the Düsseldorf tradition, notable as one of the first Finnish women to achieve a sustained professional career as an artist.{{cite web |title=Åberg, Victoria (1824-1892) |url=https://kansallisbiografia.fi/kansallisbiografia/henkilo/4178 |website=Kansallisbiografia.fi |publisher=National Biography of Finland |access-date=5 August 2021 |language=fi}}{{cite news |title=1800-luvun maisemamaalari Victoria Åberg on todellinen löytö Matka toiseen ulottuvuuteen |url=https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000003161900.html |access-date=5 August 2021 |work=Helsingin Sanomat |date=28 July 1992 |language=fi}}

Education

Åberg began training at the Finnish Art Society Drawing School (Suomen Taideyhdistyksen Piirustuskoulu) as part of its first cohort in its opening year, 1848.{{cite web |title=Ulrika Åberg |url=https://kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi/taiteilija/ulrika-aberg-2 |website=Artist Register |publisher=Artists' Association of Finland |access-date=5 August 2021 |language=fi}} Afterwards she continued her studies first in Düsseldorf under Hans Gude, and later, funded by a state stipend, in Dresden and Weimar throughout the late 1850s and early 1860s.

Career

Åberg's public debut came in 1849.

Alongside her artistic pursuits, Åberg worked as a secondary school arts teacher from the mid-1840s until early 1860s.

After that, she lived and worked outside of Finland — mostly in Germany, but also spending some years in Italy — more or less continuously from the mid-1860s onwards, at least in part because she felt that her Düsseldorfer work was not sufficiently appreciated in her home country.