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{{Short description|Finnish landscape painter}}
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| birth_place = [[Vaasa]], [[Finland]]
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| death_place = [[Helsinki]], Finland
| nationality = Finnish
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| field = [[Painting]]
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| movement = Düsseldorf school of painting
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'''Fanny Churberg''' (12 December 1845 – 10 May 1892) was a [[Finland|Finnish]] landscape painter.<ref name="kansallisbiografia">{{cite web |last1=Konttinen |first1=Riitta |title=Churberg, Fanny (1845 - 1892) |url=https://kansallisbiografia.fi/kansallisbiografia/henkilo/3341 |website=Kansallisbiografia |access-date=7 August 2020 |date=31 October 2007}}</ref><ref name="hs">{{cite news |title=Fanny saa levätä puiden alla |url=https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000002560973.html |access-date=7 August 2020 |work=Helsingin Sanomat |date=22 September 2012}}</ref>

==Biography==
Churberg was born on 12 December 1845, in [[Vaasa]]. Her father, Matias Churberg, was a doctor from a family of farmers and her mother Maria was the daughter of the vicar in [[Liperi]] parish, Nils Johan Perander. Fanny was the third of seven children. Four of her siblings died when they were young and so Fanny grew up with her two older brothers Torsten and {{ill|Waldemar Churberg|fi}}.<ref name="kansallisbiografia"/> Fanny was proud of her [[Ostrobothnia (administrative region)|Ostrobothnia]]n family and heritage and was planning along with her brothers on changing the surname to Kuurila according to the family's old estate. They never got around to it though.

When Fanny was twelve her mother died and she had to take on large parts of the responsibility of being the matron of the house. Later on she got sent to a girls' school in [[Porvoo]], but she returned to Vaasa when she was 17–18 years old. When she was 20 her father died. Fanny cared for him day and night during the last months of his life. After her father's death she and her brothers moved to Helsinki, where they lived with their aunt.<ref name="kansallisbiografia"/>

[[File:Portrait photograph of Fanny Churberg.jpg|thumb|100px|Young Churberg in the early 1860s]]

She started her artistic training in [[Helsinki]] in 1865 with private lessons from [[Alexandra Frosterus-Såltin]], {{ill|Emma Gyldén|fi}} and [[Berndt Lindholm]]. Her studies continued in [[Düsseldorf]], [[Germany]], but she always returned to Finland to paint during the summer. She was also one of the first Finnish painters to study in [[Paris]], [[France]]. Although Churberg remained to a large extent within the conventions of the [[Düsseldorf school of painting]], she openly expressed her enthusiasm for the countryside and its dramatic situations, relying above all on colour and a fast brush technique to do so. The charged quality of her work differed sharply from that of her contemporaries, as did her subjects, for example the tense atmosphere before a thunderstorm in the open country or the deep, swampy heart of the forest. Churberg founded the Friends of Finnish Handicrafts in 1879.<ref>[[Friends of Finnish Handicraft]]</ref>{{Circular reference|date=April 2018}} She urged Finnish women to join the Friends' effort to revive textile practice in Finland.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Modernism in Scandinavia: Art, Architecture and Design|last=Ashby|first=Charlotte|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|year=2017|pages=73}}</ref><ref name="yle">{{cite news |last1=Dahl |first1=Päivi |title=Räväkkä Fanny Churberg mursi rajat |url=https://yle.fi/tekstitv/arkisto/vapaa-aika/ravakka_fanny_churberg_mursi_rajat_3547.html |access-date=7 August 2020 |work=Yle |date=15 August 2012}}</ref><ref name="ksml">{{cite news |last1=Toivakka |first1=Sari |title=Fanny Churberg – Niin kuin ei vielä kukaan nainen -juhlanäyttely |url=https://www.ksml.fi/kulttuuri/Fanny-Churberg-%E2%80%93-Niin-kuin-ei-viel%C3%A4-kukaan-nainen-juhlan%C3%A4yttely/191857 |access-date=7 August 2020 |work=Keskisuomalainen |date=12 November 2012}}</ref>

Fanny Churberg's career ended suddenly in 1880.<ref name="ts">{{cite news |title=Fanny Churberg oli niin kuin ei vielä kukaan nainen |url=https://www.ts.fi/kulttuuri/392426 |access-date=7 August 2020 |work=Turun Sanomat |date=20 September 2012 |archive-date=31 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031145818/http://www.ts.fi/kulttuuri/392426/Fanny+Churberg+oli+niin+kuin+ei+viela+kukaan+nainen |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="savonsanomat">{{cite news |title=Fanny Churberg maalasi luontokokemuksiaan |url=https://www.savonsanomat.fi/kulttuuri/nayttelyt/Fanny-Churberg-maalasi-luontokokemuksiaan/399594 |access-date=7 August 2020 |work=Savon Sanomat |date=21 September 2012}}</ref> Her health was weaker and she took care of her brother Torsten who was suffering from [[tuberculosis]]. Torsten's death in 1882 made her quite lonely and her will to live lessened as did her energy. The other brother Waldemar, to whom she used to be very close, had married in 1877. The reason for ending her career might also have been the harsh criticism she had met before, but she never withdrew completely from the art circles. She did not however paint anymore after 1880, not even for her own amusement, but during her career she had still managed to produce over 300 paintings.

Churberg died on 10 May 1892, in Helsinki.

== Legacy ==
Churberg was included in the 2018 exhibit ''Women in Paris 1850-1900''.<ref name="Madeline">{{cite book |last1=Madeline |first1=Laurence |title=Women artists in Paris, 1850-1900 |date=2017 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0300223934}}</ref>
In 2024, she was also included in the exhibition ''Against All Odds'' at the [[National Gallery of Denmark]].<ref>{{Cite Q | Q128934913 }}</ref>

==Works==

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|Fanny Churberg - Fire-Fallow Landscape from Uusimaa.jpg|''Fire-Fallow Landscape from [[Uusimaa]]'', c. 1872<ref name="ttkaski">{{cite web |last1=Heinänen |first1=Seija |last2=Rajaniemi |first2=Marja-Liisa |title=Kaskimaisema Uudeltamaalta |url=http://www.tuhattulkintaa.fi/project/kaskimaisema-uudeltamaalta/ |website=Tuhat Tulkintaa |access-date=7 August 2020 |archive-date=2 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220402070553/http://www.tuhattulkintaa.fi/project/kaskimaisema-uudeltamaalta/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|Fanny Churberg - Shocks of Rye - A III 2348 - Finnish National Gallery.jpg|''Shocks of Rye'', 1876
|Fanny Churberg - Forest Creek.jpg|''Forest Creek'', 1877
|Fanny Churberg - Landscape in Moonlight (1878).jpg|''Landscape in Moonlight'', 1878<ref name="ttkuutamo">{{cite web |last1=Heinänen |first1=Seija |last2=Rajaniemi |first2=Marja-Liisa |title=Kuutamomaisema |url=http://www.tuhattulkintaa.fi/project/kuutamomaisema/ |website=Tuhat Tulkintaa |access-date=7 August 2020 |archive-date=22 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220122060755/http://www.tuhattulkintaa.fi/project/kuutamomaisema/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|Fanny Churberg - Landscape in Moonlight - A III 2360 - Finnish National Gallery.jpg|''Landscape in Moonlight'', 1878
|Fanny Churberg - A Rocky Shore in the Archipelago.jpg|''A Rocky Shore in the Archipelago'', 1878
|Fanny Churberg - Autumn Atmosphere - A III 2363 - Finnish National Gallery.jpg|''Migratory Birds'', 1878
|Fanny Churberg - Talvimaisema, iltarusko (1878).jpg|''Winter Landscape, Sunset'', 1878
|Fanny Churberg - Talvimaisema, auringon mailleen mentyä - A I 189 - Finnish National Gallery.jpg|''Winter Landscape, Evening Atmosphere'', 1880
}}

==See also==
* [[Finnish art]]

==References==
<references />

==Further reading==
* Riitta Konttinen, ''Fanny Churberg'', Otava (2012) {{ISBN|951-126-111-8}}

==External links==
{{commons-inline|Paintings by Fanny Churberg}}

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