Finnish National Gallery

Magnus von Wright

Annankatu kylmänä talviaamuna

Magnus's home was on Annankatu, in the very centre of present-day Helsinki. Again and again Magnus transferred the views seen from the yard and the windows of his house onto canvas or paper.

Annankatu on a Cold Winter Morning (1868) is one of the last paintings that Magnus von Wright finished; it is full of the unshakable peace and quiet of a small town, a tranquillity that freezes the clouds in the sky.

Throughout his life Magnus von Wright suffered from a feeling that his irregular art studies had been insufficient. On his first and only study trip to Düsseldorf he wrote home in a downcast tone: I feel deep sorrow at the fact that I did not have a chance to develop my artistic gifts earlier - I too could then have become a painter. [NEXT PAGE]

* The Biedermeier Era * B.A. Godenhjelm and C.E. Sjöstrand, the First Teachers at the Helsinki Drawing School * Berndt Abraham Godenhjelm : Omakuva pietarilaisessa työhuoneessa * Carl Eneas Sjöstrand : Kullervon surma * Kullervo katkoo kapalonsa * Robert Wilhelm Ekman : Ilmatar * Kreeta Haapasalo soittaa kannelta talonpoikaistuvassa * The Collection of the Finnish Art Society and the Idea of a Museum * Magnus von Wright : Pulska-alli * Sorsia * Wilhelm von Wright : Riippuvia sorsia * Magnus von Wright : Liljenstrandein talo talvella * Annankatu kylmänä talviaamuna * Ferdinand von Wright : Huuhkaja iskee jänikseen * Ensi yllätys * Haminanlahden puutarhassa * Taistelevat metsot

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Magnus von Wright, works at the collections