Maria Catharina Wiik

Place: Helsinki

Born: 1853

Death: 1928

Biography:

Maria Catharina Wiik was a Finnish painter born in Helsinki in 1853. She died in Helsinki in 1928. She worked principally with still life, genre images, landscape paintings and portraits. She studied art in Helsinki and Paris, and exhibited her works in the Paris Salon in 1880. She was a substitute teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts of Helsinki in 1875 and 1880. She painted in England and St Ives in Cornwall in 1883-1884 and 1889. Her painting 'Out into the World' won a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle in 1900. She is known for her detailed and psychological small paintings.