Kaarlo Vuori — Paintings

The exhibition introduces works by Kaarlo Vuori (born 1863 in Ruovesi,
died 1914 in Runni, Iisalmi), Finnish painter, illustrator and art teacher. In
the 1890´s Kaarlo Vuori was the first professional artist in Tampere. The
exhibition is organized in cooperation with Tampere Art Museum – The
Regional Art Museum of Pirkanmaa and Tampere Artists´ Association.

Kaarlo Vuori, born in Ruovesi, went to Helsinki to study medicine, but
soon changed into art studies in the Finnish Art Society´s Drawing School.
He continued his studies in Paris, at the Académie Julien. He worked as a
headmaster of Turku Art Society´s Drawing School in 1898-1904. During
the summer 1905 he moved to Tampere with his family and worked as a
drawing teacher at the local school of arts and crafts, founded in Tampere by
Ludwig Roine. Kaarlo Vuori is mainly known as a portrait and landscape
painter, but his role as an art teacher is also significant. His interest in
depicting ethnographical subjects is a recurrent feature in his works.

Kaarlo Vuori´s wife, actress Tilda Vuori, was the first artistic director of the
Tampere Workers´ Theatre. Kaarlo Vuori made stage sets and costumes for
the theatre and also instructed the younger generation of set-designers.
The home of the Vuori family, both in Turku and Tampere, was the meeting
place of the theatre people.

Kaarlo Vuori was interested in photography and a great amount of his
pictures has survived into our days. He took a lot of pictures of his
models and other subjects to be used in his painting process, but he also
photographed townscapes of Tampere and Turku, landscapes of mainly
Ruovesi as well as ethnographical and family subjects. Vuori was a keen
drawer and therefore, in addition to his painterly production, he did a
variety of drawing jobs for e.g. a literary-artistic publication called Nuori
Suomi (Young Finland) published by Päivälehti-magazine. Vuori was one
of the first postcard artists in Finland as well.