Sigrid Schauman

Sigrid Maria Schauman (born 24 December 1877 in Chuguyev, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) - died 22 February 1979 in Helsinki, Finland) was a Finnish artist and art critic.

Sigrid Maria Schauman was born on 24 December 1877 at Tsuguyev, in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine), the daughter of general Fredrik Waldemar Schauman and Elin Maria Schauman. Her mother was the daughter of the bishop of Porvoo, Finland. After spending her childhood with her family in Radom, Poland, Schauman came to Finland when she was eight years old. In 1899 she began her studies in the Finnish Association of Arts Drawing School in Helsinki, where her teachers included Carl Jahn and Helene Schjerfbeck. In 1901 she participated for the first time in a group exhibition at the Ateneum.

In 1904 Schauman's brother, Eugen Schauman, murdered the Governor-General of Finland Nikolai Bobrikov. After this she moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, and continued studying in Florence and in Paris,where she was at the Academie de la Palette in 1910 before travelling in Egypt.

She married Edvard Wolff, but her husband died shortly after the birth of their child in 1913.

In 1920 Schauman started work in the newspaper Dagens Press (from 1922 Svenska Pressen, from 1945 Nya Pressen) as an art critic, and worked for the newspaper for almost 30 years, publishing over 1500 art reviews, interviews and travel reports.

In 1939 she visited Rome and Paris.

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