Eva Anttila
Eva Anttila (March 30, 1894, Tampere – August 1, 1993 Espoo[1]) was a Finnish painter and textile artist. Her work was notable for applying techniques of painting to her textile works and creating pictorial scenes.
Biography[edit]
Anttila was born on March 30, 1894, in Tampere, Finland[2] to Selma Anttila (née Helander), a writer, and Werner Anttila, a translator and publisher.[3] Her brother, Leo Anttila (1903-1967) was a writer.[4] She attended the school of the Finnish Art Society from 1913 to 1915 where she studied painting.[1] She later graduated from the Design Department of the School of Art and Design in 1917.[5] Anttila was married to Finnish painter Alexander Paischeff from 1917 to 1918 and Finnish artist Arttu Brummer from 1921 to 1923.[4] She had two children, daughter Eila Pajastie, born in 1918, and son Paavo Anttila, born in 1929.[4] Anttila was one of the first teachers of textile art in Finland, and later taught in Iceland, England, and the United States.[6]
Art[edit]
Anttila was a recognized painter in Finland in the 1910s, before later shifting to textile work.[6] In the 1924 she started a private weaving studio where she began creating textiles for interiors, placing an emphasis on practicality.[7]
After World War II, Anttila solely focused on designing tapestries.[1] Her work with tapestries places an emphasis on texture and color, dyeing her own yarn and borrowing shading techniques from painting. She would begin her work with a rough sketch, deciding color and details as she went along.[6]
The Bank of Finland commissioned Anttila to create a tapestry in 1952.[8] She designed Work and Life, a nearly five meter long tapestry that depicted the shift from an agrarian society into a society focused on education and technological advancement that took place in post-war Finland.[9]
In 1983 Anttila was awarded Textile Artist of the Year by TEXO, the Finnish Association for Textile Artists and Designers. Over 70 of her tapestries were displayed in this exhibition.[6]
Notable works[edit]
- Evening, 1949[10]
- White Veil, 1950[11]
- Profiles, 1952[12]
- Finnish Forest, 1952[13]
- Work and Life, 1952[9]
Sources[edit]
- ^ a b c "Eva Anttila | People | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum". collection.cooperhewitt.org. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
- ^ "Etusivu". kansallisbiografia.fi. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
- ^ Korhonen, Juhani - Rantala, Risto (ed.): Finnish Writers, p. 18. Helsinki: Otava, 2004. ISBN 951-1-19094-6 .
- ^ a b c "41 (Kuka kukin on (Aikalaiskirja) : Who's who in Finland / 1954)". runeberg.org (in Finnish). Retrieved 2020-12-01.
- ^ "designforum.fi - Eva Anttila". 2011-07-08. Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
- ^ a b c d Pallasmaa, Ullamaria (1983). "70 years working for textiles" (PDF). Form Function Finland. 2: 29–31. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-08.
- ^ "From Sketches and Samples to Ledgers and Advertisements näkymä | Tahiti". tahiti.journal.fi. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
- ^ "National treasures". www.rahamuseo.fi. Retrieved 2020-12-16.
- ^ a b Taide Art. "A Sense of Rising Prosperity". taide.art. Retrieved 2020-12-16.
- ^ Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. "Hanging, Evening, 1949". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
- ^ Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. "Hanging, White Veil, 1950". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
- ^ Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. "Hanging, Profiles, 1952". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
- ^ Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. "Hanging, Finnish Forest, 1952". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
Further reading[edit]
Salo-Mattila, Kirsti, and Pekka Mattila. Picture Vs. Weave: Eva Anttila's Tapestry Art in the Continuum of the Genre. Helsinki: University of Helsinki, Dept. of Art History, 1997. Print.
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