Åke Fredrik Hellman (19 July 1915 – 18 December 2017) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish

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and portrait artist and art professor. He worked as art teacher at the

University of Helsinki The University of Helsinki (, ; UH) is a public university in Helsinki, Finland. The university was founded in Turku in 1640 as the Royal Academy of Åbo under the Swedish Empire, and moved to Helsinki in 1828 under the sponsorship of Alexander ...

. In 1963, he received the

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. Åke Hellman was born in

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. He was married to the painter Karin Hellman, née Wisuri, who was 11 days older, until her death on 25 February 2004. They met when studying together at

Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture; ; ), was formed of two separate schools: the faculty of architecture (previously part of the Helsinki University of Technology) and the University of Art and Design Helsinki (UIAH, known in ...

1934–1938, and have the son Karl-Johan (born 1944) and the daughter Åsa (born 1947) who is a ceramist. ''Människan och målaren'' ("The Human and the Painter"), a biography of Hellman written by Ulla-Lena Lundberg and Erik Kruskopf, was published until Hellman's 90th birthday in 2005. Hellman

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on 19 July 2015. He died in

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on 18 December 2017 at the age of 102.

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Åke Hellman
in ''

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''.
Åke Hellman and his artistship.

A Shared Atelier – Karin and Åke Hellman
at Kunsthalle Helsinki. 1915 births 2017 deaths Pro Finlandia Medals of the Order of the Lion of Finland Finnish still life painters Academic staff of the University of Helsinki Finnish men centenarians Finnish portrait painters 20th-century Finnish painters 21st-century Finnish painters Artists from Helsinki Swedish-speaking Finns {{Finland-painter-stub