Personal details:  
   
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
   
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
   
   
Education:  
   
Art studies in Finland: University of Helsinki 1931-33
   
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
   
   
Exhibitions:  
   
First adjudicated exhibition at home: Helsinki 1928
   
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
   
Private exhibitions in Finland:
  • Helsinki: 1929, 1930, 1931, 1937, 1938, 1941, 1963, 1967, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1982
  • 1984 Lahti, Tampere, Savonlinna
   
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
   
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
   
   
Details on researched works:  
   
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
   
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
   
Public works of art:
  • Fresco, 1947, Student Union of the School of Economics, Helsinki
  • Fresco, 1962, Kotka Branch of the SYP Bank
   
Publications: Books, catalogues, videos, television programmes, interviews and newspaper articles in Belgium, France, Denmark 1958
   
   
Other activities: Art critic
   
   
Further public offices:  
   
Art teacher in academies of art:
  • ABC-School of Artistic Drawing, teacher 1937-41
  • Finnish Academy of Fine Art, teacher and rector 1941-56
   
   
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
   
   
Medals of distinction:  
   
Finland:
  • SL K
  • SVR I
   
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
   
   
Special events: 1970: Bestowal of the title Professor


Translation:
Peggy Graham-Sechtem