Christmas at the Sinebrychoff's Home

This is a revisit to the home museum of the Sinebrychoff family

that I visited in December 2019.  The home museum is open, but I have not been there now.

Photo: H. Aaltonen, the museums site

The roots of the Sinebrychoff family lead to Moscow but they have settled in Finland already at the end of the 18th century. The family got rich via brewing business, nowadays the brewery is owned by the Danish Carlsberg.

Paul Sinebrychoff (1859-1917) & his wife Fanny (1862‒1921) started collecting art in the 1890s. Just before her death, after almost thirty years of collecting, Fanny Sinebrychoff donated a collection of about 900 works of art to the Finnish government, as was their mutual wish. The collection is housed in their original home in the center of Helsinki, at Bulevardi. The home museum at the 2nd floor is very luxurious. It abounds with old oil paintings and antique furniture, much gold & much money. Photos are mine, except two from the museum’s site. 

Photo: H. Aaltonen, the museums site

The coffee tables were set in the luxurious saloons, silver was shining

and the table cloths were amazingly white.

The dining room was decorated with dark furniture but the chandelier was sparkling.

There  were an endless amount of expensive art treasures, as the reading monk by Rembrandt.

 Wishing you all a Merry Christmas!

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Life Under Threat

Life Under Threat / Sinebrychoff Art Museum

I have not yet shared with you these photos from my art museum visit in February - no one knows when the museums shall open their doors again. The exhibition was about animals & nature. The pandemic had not yet exploded in Europe and the USA, now human lives are threatened, too. 

"The exhibition presents visions of animals and nature from the 16th century to today. The artworks convey the relationship humans have had with animals and with nature through the ages. In the western worldview, animals and nature are viewed as something that exists for humans. In reality, humans are merely a part of the whole. Understanding co-existence helps to preserve living space both for humans and for all other creatures." 

I liked the fact that the exhibition featured both newer and older art and many styles. My own favorites were eg. Akseli Gallén-Kallela’s series of small landscapes and the mysterious plant painting of Hjalmar Munsterhjelm. I’ll share some paintings, unfortunately I don’t know the names of all the artists.

Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865–1931) / This set of small paintings was wonderful!

Sunset on the Savannah, 1909 / Ateneum Art Museum

Eero Järnefelt (1863–1937)

Frog with Marsh Marigold / Ateneum Art Museum, photo Jenni Nurminen

Karl Wilhelm de Hamilton (1668–1754)

Forest Floor Still Life, n. 1735

Sinebrychoff Art Museum, photo Hannu Aaltonen



Hjalmar Munsterhjelm (1854-1926)

Unknown artist

Flowers and parrots / Sinebrychoff Art Museum.

I wish you all are well and are able to enjoy the spring. I am ok, but less online,

because there is so much to do in the garden right now.

All the best, riitta

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Luxury Treasures

I visited once more the Sinebrychoff family’s home museum at Bulevardi.

The family was inmensely rich and they collected antique furniture and art.

The home museum is filled with extremely precious paintings and I’ll share a few of them.

Jan van den Hecke (1620-1684) - Stilleben, between 1636 - 1684

 Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669) - Reading monk, 1661

Cornelis de Vos (1584 - 1651) - Portrait of two sisters, between 1610 - 1615

 Antoine Watteau (1684 - 1721) - Swing, 1721

Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757), Sonata in a minor K 61
Scarlatti was an Italian composer. Through the history of mankind there has been severe epidemics - 
now Italy is hit the worst. I find it great that people are singing in their balconies during lock down. 
I wish the world conquers soon this - stay well & safe.

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Edelfelt & The Romanovs at Sinebrychoff Art Museum

Albert Edelfelt and The Romanovs at The Sinebrychoff Art Museum's atmospheric brick cellar is a small exhibition, but definitely worth a look. The exhibition focuses on Albert Edelfelt’s (1854–1905) lesser-known works related to the Russian Imperial family and includes oil paintings, sketches and letters from the artist. This exhibition was on display in St. Petersburg in the autumn 2019. Finland was in Edelfelt’s time the Grand Duchy of Finland of the Russian Empire, and the Imperial court opened its doors to Edelfelt, already a renowned master. Albert Edelfelt is known for his naturalistic style and Realist approach to art. He traveled to Italy, France, England, Spain, Sweden, Denmark and Russia. 

For me, the best experience was to see Bertha and Capi from 1881. 

The size of the painting is pretty small, but the light glows and Bertha's pink ruffle dress 

is masterfully depicted. The painting has a charming & light summer atmosphere. 

In my photo above, the painting is not completely visible, so still another 

of Sinebrychoff's media bank.

Good Friends, Berta and Capi, 1881 

Berta was Edelfelt’s 10 years younger sister to whom he sent fancy dresses from Paris

The State Hermitage Museum, photo: Pavel Demidov

Edelfelt was handsome and loved by women. He was married but the marriage was not happy and he spent decades in Paris. His life has inspired many non-fiction and fiction writers. In my posts there are displayed some Edelfelt’s paintings: Venla Hiidensalo - Because of you / Anna Kortelainen - Virginie (Virginie was Edelfelt's model & mistress and it is rumoured that they had two children together) / Anna Kortelainen - Wild Garden, presents Edelfelt's Haikko, a villa on the sea where he spent his summers.

The Grand Dukes Boris and Kirill Vladimirovich as Children, 1881

This painting, long thought to be lost, is being shown for the first time in Finland.

The Rybinsk State History, Architecture and Art Museum

Michael and Xenia, Children of the Emperor Alexander III, 1882

Private collection

Under the Birches, 1882, private collection,

ONLINE:

I found a slightly different treatment of the same theme.
Edelfelt painted here his sisters Annie and Berta. The third sister, Ellen, died earlier.

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Modern Jewellery à la Cranach

Design: Kerstin Mayer, 2005

I told you about Lucas Cranach exhibition HERE. Modern jewellery à la Cranach was part of the exhibition, designed by contemporary German artists in 2015. It was the year of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Lucas Cranach the Younger and the Saxony-Anhalt Arts Foundation arranged a competition. The exhibition of these amazing & imaginary works was shown in 2015-16 at three museums in Germany - and now I could see them in Helsinki! There were big posters with beautiful young girls and the jewellery was under glass.

Pieces of jewellery play a key role in Cranach’s works. They emphasize a woman’s status and beauty, often being nude beauties’ only accessory. The items painted by Cranach generally represented the fashion of the Wittenberg court.

Fokus auf Schwartz / Weiss für Christa

Design: Georg Dobler, 2014

Design: Svenja John, 2014

Design: Franziska Höhne, 2014

Design: Mareen Alburg Duncker, 2014

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