Mathilda Rotkirch

Rotkirch was born in Borgå (Porvoo), Finland. She was the daughter of Baron Karl Fredrik Rotkirch [fi] and Augusta Fredrika Elisabeth Rotkirch née Aminoff.^[1]

In the spring of 1833, she made her first study trip to Stockholm where she studied with Johan Gustaf Sandberg and Robert Wilhelm Ekman. She was a student at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts between 1833 and 1838. She took a study trip in 1840–1841 along with artist Sophie Aminoff (1808–1862) and her husband Carl Reuterskiöld, on a journey through Europe. They visited Lübeck, Hamburg, Kassel, Strasbourg, Bern, Geneva, Milan and Paris, where she studied with the Swedish painter and designer Per Wickenberg (1812–1846).^[2][3]

She died of a lung ailment in Åbo (Turku) during 1842 at the age of 28. She was buried in the family graveyard at Näsebacken next to Borgå.^[1]

Rotkirch was represented in an exhibition in Finland in 1847. She is represented at both Ateneum and Cygnaeus Gallery.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mathilda Rotkirch.

• Kuurne, Jouni: Mathilda Rotkirch: Taiteilija ja matkailija. 2002.
  • Jouni Kuurne; Teresia Ijäs (2002). Mathilda Rotkirch : konstnärinna och resenär / Jouni Kuurne ; [översättning från finska: Teresia Ijäs ...]. Skrifter utgivna av Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland (in Swedish). Helsinki: Society of Swedish Literature in Finland. ISBN 951-583-077-X. ISSN 0039-6842. Wikidata Q113529993.
• Westermarck, Helena: Mathilda Rotkirch. Historiska och litteraturhistoriska studier 2, pp. 8–78. Svensk Litteratursällskap i Finland, Helsingfors 1926.
• Willner-Rönnholm, Margareta: Målarinnan Mathilda Rotkirch: En bortglömd pionjär? Finsk Tidskrift, 1/2003.