Klovharu the island where Tove Jansson spent her summers


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By Nina Siegal Published Oct. 4, 2023 Updated Oct. 11, 2023 Europe was on the brink of World War II when Tove Jansson, the Scandinavian writer and artist, sat down to sketch her first "Moomin".


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Finnish author Tove Jansson (1914-2001) best known as the creator of the world-famous Moomin stories and author of The Summer Book, for 40 years shared her life with the graphic artist Tuulikki Pietilä. In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Jansson raced to build a cabin on an island in the Gulf of Finland which would become their summer refuge.


Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä the great love story of Tove's life

26.6.2019 In this third and final part of our series on queer themes in Tove Jansson's life and work, we'll take a look at the beautiful relationship between Tove Jansson and the love of her life, her partner Tuulikki Pietilä.


Tove & Tooti a beautiful exploration of Tove Jansson's love and life

Tuulikki Pietilä (1917-2009), Tove Jansson's life partner, was a Finnish graphic artist and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. Together they collaborated on many art projects, and the Moomin characters had a significant role in Pietilä's work as an artist.


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In 1956, by the record player at a party, Jansson met a fellow artist, Tuulikki Pietila - or Tooti, as she was known. Jansson asked her to dance. Pietila refused, unwilling to break with social.


The island life of Tove Jansson

Tove Jansson and Tuulikki "Tooti" Pietilä landed on Klovharu with their boat Victoria in almost 30 springs. Image: Moomin Characters™. The cottage was designed by Tooti's architect brother Reima Pietilä and his spouse, architect Raili Pietilä. Both Tove and Tooti had their own desks where they worked with art, books and letters.


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In 1956, she met Tuulikki Pietilä ("Tooti"), a prolific graphic artist and engraver. They would remain partners for forty-five years, until Jansson's death.


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Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pieitilä Translated by Thomas Teal Brunström would sometimes talk about the great break-up of the ice. He'd say that if you haven't seen that, you haven't seen anything, and I'm not talking now about the ice breaking up in one of those little bays deep in the archipelago.


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Literary Hub Tove Jansson Falls in Love The Moomin Creator on Five Decades of Life with Tuulikki Pietilä Via University of Minnesota Press By Tove Jansson March 11, 2020 Meeting engraver and artist Tuulikki Pietilä proved a turning point in Tove Jansson's life.


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24.7.2015 Tove Jansson (1914) and Tuulikki Pietilä (1917) met each other during art studies and formed a bond that would last throughout their lifetime. From the mid-1950s onwards they lived and worked openly together on numerous projects in literature, art, and life.


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145 I n 1964, when she was in her 50s, the Moomin creator Tove Jansson settled on her dream island. Klovharun in the Finnish archipelago is tiny - some 6,000 sq metres - and isolated, "a rock.


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T here's a line in The Summer Book by Tove Jansson where the narrator describes the fragility of moss. Residents of the tiny Finnish island where the novel is set are careful to avoid treading.


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Tove Jansson - creator of the Moomins Tove Jansson and her companion, graphic artist Tuulikki Pietilä, donated their collections to Tampere Art Museum in 1986. The Moomin Museum is taking care of Jansson's Moomin Art collection and presenting it in international museums and touring exhibitions abroad.


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During her studies she met the artist Tove Jansson, who later became her life partner. [3] Pietilä's work covered many mediums, including woodcuts and linographs, and utilised multiple styles, including realism and cubism. The first exhibition of Pietilä's work was held in Turku in 1935 when she was a student.


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In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, and for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietilä, retreated there to live, paint and write, energised by the.


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A decade after Tove Jansson (August 9, 1914-June 27, 2001) dreamt up her iconic Moomin series — one of those works of philosophy disguised as children's books, populated by characters with the soulful wisdom of The Little Prince, the genial sincerity of Winnie-the-Pooh, and the irreverent curiosity of the Peanuts — she dreamt up Too-ticky, the s.

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