At the age of twenty Fanny Churberg began her artistic training in Helsinki, where she was a student of Emma Gylden and Alexandra Frosterus-Saltin as well as Berndt Lindholm, who had studied at the Dusseldorf Academy and - as one of the most successful Finnish landscape painter - had a major influence on Churberg's oeuvre. In 1867 she went to Dusseldorf for the first time, where she became a student of the landscape painter Carl Ludwig. Further stays in the German city followed, during which she created works inspired by themes from her home country. Churberg did not adopt the academic style of painting but developed their own progressive style. However her innovative works were not very well received at the time. It was only in the afterma...