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Name: |
Aarre Heinonen |
Date of Birth: |
31.07.1906 |
Deceased: |
28.01.2003 |
Place of Birth: |
Lahti |
Parents: |
Master-decorator, Hugo Heinonen and
Sievä Heinonen nee Heikkilä |
Wife: |
Tuomi Elmgren-Heinonen, writer |
Title: |
Professor |
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Society Memberships: |
- Member of the Society of Artists, Member of the Supervisory Board of the Finnish Artists’ Society 1942-22
- Member of the Supervisory Board of the Finnish Academy of Fine Art 1941-56
- Member of the Representative Body of the Finnish Academy of Fine Art since 1956
- Member of the Artists’ Committee on Cultural Affairs since 1957
- Honorary Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Art, 1973
- Corresponding Member of the Frederik Chopin Society, Warsaw Poland, 1973
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Education: |
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Art studies in Finland: |
University of Helsinki 1931-33 |
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Art studies abroad: |
- National Hoger Institute at the Royal Academy of Fine Art, Antwerp, Belgium 1935-37
- Paris Academy of Art, France 1934
- Rome, Italy 1939
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Exhibitions: |
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First adjudicated exhibition at home: |
Helsinki 1928 |
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Participation in Finnish joint exhibitions: |
- Exhibition of Finnish Artists 1929, 1930, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937-38, 1941-43, 1945-47
- Triennial Show of the Finnish Academy of Fine Art 1953, 1965
- Young Artists' Exhibition 1940
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Private exhibitions in Finland: |
- Helsinki: 1929, 1930, 1931, 1937, 1938, 1941, 1963, 1967, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1982
- 1984 Lahti, Tampere, Savonlinna
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Private exhibitions abroad: |
- Antwerp, Belgium 1937
- Paris, France 1950
- Hamburg, Germany, 1957
- Warsaw, Poland 1959, 1972
- Berlin, Germany 1961
- Hanover, Germany 1962
- Budapest, Hungary 1973
- Copenhagen, Denmark 1958
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International exhibitions and exhibitions of Finnish art abroad: |
- Oslo, Norway 1936, 1946, 1950
- Milan and Rome, Italy 1937
- Gothenburg, Sweden 1939, 1943
- Stockholm, Sweden, 1947
- Brussels, The Hague, Prague, Warsaw, Zürich, Florence and Paris 1949-50
- Lübeck, Germany 1952
- Biennale in Sao Paulo, Brazil 1953
- Moscow, Leningrad, Soviet Union 1953-54
- Rome, Italy 1955
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Details on researched works: |
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Works in public collections in Finland: |
- Ateneum
- Amos Anderson Art Gallery
- Imatra
- Joensuu
- Kokkola
- Lahti and Mikkeli
- Tampere Museum of Modern Art
- City of Jyväskylä
- Alvar Aalto Museum
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Works in public collections abroad: |
- French National Museum in Paris
- Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Belgian National Collection in Antwerp
- Russian State Collection in Moscow
- Polish National Collection in Warsaw and the Sztuki Museum in Lodz
- The Szepmuvezeti Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary
- The Arkivmuseet in Lund, Sweden
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Public works of art: |
- Fresco, 1947, Student Union of the School of Economics, Helsinki
- Fresco, 1962, Kotka Branch of the SYP Bank
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Publications: |
Books, catalogues, videos, television programmes, interviews and newspaper articles in Belgium, France, Denmark 1958 |
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Other activities: |
Art critic |
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Further public offices: |
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Art teacher in academies of art: |
- ABC-School of Artistic Drawing, teacher 1937-41
- Finnish Academy of Fine Art, teacher and rector 1941-56
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Awards: |
- 2. Prize in the national art competition 1933
- 1. Prize in the national art competition 1938
- 3. Prize in the Dukat Competition 1934
- 2. Prize in the Young Artists’ Winter Exhibition 1944
- 1. Prize in the Competition for the Fresco in the School of Economics 1945
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Medals of distinction: |
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Finland: |
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Abroad: |
- Officer of the Dutch Oranien-Nassau Knighthood
- Knighthood 2 conferred by Leopol II of Belgium
- Officer of the Belgian Royal Knighthood
Commander of the Polonia Restituta Knighthood
- Knight of the 1. Danneborg Knighthood, Denmark
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Special events: |
1970: Bestowal of the title Professor |