{"id":16686,"date":"2017-06-09T13:29:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T11:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=16686"},"modified":"2017-10-01T12:08:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T10:08:21","slug":"tove-jansson-art-love-and-moomins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/tove-jansson-art-love-and-moomins\/","title":{"rendered":"Tove Jansson – Art, Love and Moomins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tove Jansson – Art, Love and Moomins
\nDates: June 10 – September 3, 2017
\nVenue: Kunstforeningen Gl Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark<\/p>\n

The exhibition TOVE JANSSON – KUNST, K\u00c6RLIGHED & MUMITROLDE (Tove Jansson – Art, Love and Moomins) at GL STRAND presents visual artist, illustrator and author Tove Jansson’s diverse oeuvre. It includes Tove Jansson\u2019s early surrealist paintings from the 1930s, the modernist and experimental works from the 1940s and 50s, and her lyrical works from the 1960s and 1970s. It shows Tove Jansson’s satirical anti-war illustrations and illustrations for comics and children\u2019s books, material that emphasises Tove Jansson\u2019s private life, and in particular her extensive work with the Moomins, in drawings, figures and photographs.<\/p>\n

Tove Marika Jansson (1914 \u2013 2001)<\/h2>\n

Finish artist and lesbian Tove Jansson<\/a> is famous for her children\u2019s books about the Moomin. Tove Jansson wrote and illustrated her first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood, in 1945 during World War II. She said later that the war had depressed her and that she had wanted to write something na\u00efve and innocent. Tove was born Helsinki into a Swedish speaking family. Her parents were artistic and her siblings became artists too. She had studied art in Stockholm, Helsinki and Paris from 1930 \u2013 1938, and she opened her first solo exhibition in Finland in 1943. In 1956 she met Ida Helmi Tuulikki Pietil\u00e4, a graphic artist who became her lifelong partner. Tuulikki Pietil\u00e4 inspired Tove to create the energetic figure \u2018Tooticky\u2019 in her Moomin books. The Tampere Art Museum Moominvalley dedicated to Tove Jansson’s moomins has moved to new premises in Tampere Hall where it re-opens on June 17, 2017 as the world\u2019s first Moomin Museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tove Jansson – Art, Love and Moomins
\nDates: June 10 – September 3, 2017
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