Hanna Frosterus-Segerstråle

Hanna Frosterus-Segerstråle (23 October 1867 in Helsinki – 9 April 1946 in Porvoo) was a Finnish artist and writer.

Hanna Frosterus-Segerstråle was born Johanna Wilhelmina Frosterus in a Swedish-speaking Finnish family.

She then continued her studies in Paris, in 1888 at Académie Colarossi under the tutelage of Gustave Courtois, Raphaël Collin and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.

After having returned to Finland and there married her husband, future teacher of theology Albert Segerstråle, the couple again went to Paris in 1889.

[2] The couple thereafter returned to Finland and Hanna Frosterus-Segerstråle would spend most of the rest of her life in Porvoo and in the family summer house in a village in Pernå.

Nonetheless, being a house wife meant that she was cut off from much of the artistic social life of Finland at the time.