Artist
Ulrika Fredrika Pasch
Ulrika Fredrika Pasch is an artist. 5 works are cataloged here, principally at Finnish National Gallery.
Ulrika Fredrika Pasch spent her life painting faces in a city where women weren’t supposed to pick up a brush. The Swedish capital in the 1700s had no shortage of nobles needing portraits, so she slipped into studios at night and painted until her eyes ached. What sticks is how she caught people mid-thought—lips half-open, eyes not quite smiling—like she’d caught them before they posed. Slide into your feed and look up “Hedvig Ulrika Hedengran”; you’ll see what I mean.
Works by Ulrika Fredrika Pasch
Collections represented
Museum
Finnish National Gallery is the largest art museum institution of Finland. It consists of the Ateneum, an art museum; Kiasma, a contemporary art museum; and the Sinebrychoff Art Museum, a historic…