Maire Gullichsen

Maire Eva Johanna Gullichsen (née Ahlström, later known as Gullichsen-Nyströmer, 24 June 1907, Porin maalaiskunta – 9 July 1990, Pori) was a Finnish art collector and patron.

She studied art in Helsinki and in Paris between 1925 and 1928 and got married in 1928 to Harry Gullichsen, a Finnish director of Norwegian descent working at the Ahlstrom company.

She was also one of the founders of Artek, along with architects Alvar and Aino Aalto and art historian Nils-Gustav Hahl.

One of Alvar Aalto's most important works is Villa Mairea in Noormarkku, designed for Harry and Maire Gullichsen in 1938.

The eldest, Harriet (born 1929), died young,[3] Kristian Gullichsen (1932–2021) was a well-known architect, Johan Gullichsen (born 1936) is a professor and a former Olympic sailor, and Lilli Alanen (1941–2021) was a philosopher and professor at Uppsala University, Sweden.