Sigrid Maria Schauman was a Finnish artist and art critic.
11 Facts About Sigrid Schauman
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Sigrid Maria Schauman was born on 24 December 1877 at Chuguyev, in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire, the daughter of general Fredrik Waldemar Schauman and Elin Maria Schauman.
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Sigrid Schauman's mother was the daughter of the Bishop of Porvoo, Finland.
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In 1899 Sigrid Schauman began her studies in the Finnish Association of Arts Drawing School in Helsinki, where her teachers included Carl Jahn and Helene Schjerfbeck.
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Sigrid Schauman visited the Onningeby artists' colony on Aland Islands, started by Victor Westerholm.
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Sigrid Schauman married Edvard Wolff, but he died shortly after the birth of their daughter Elisabeth in 1913.
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In 1920 Sigrid Schauman started work in the newspaper Dagens Press as an art critic, and worked for the newspaper for almost 30 years, publishing over 1500 art reviews, interviews and travel reports.
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Sigrid Schauman retired in 1949, but continued painting on a grant provided by the City of Helsinki and an artist's pension from the State of Finland.
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Sigrid Schauman was a founding member of the Prisma group of artists in 1956.
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Sigrid Schauman's weakening eyesight prevented her from continuing to paint in the late 1960s.
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Sigrid Schauman published a biographical book Min bror Eugen: En gestalt ur Finlands frihetskamp in 1964.