Maria Wiik

Overview

Maria Catharina Wiik (1853–1928), Finnish portrait and genre painter, born in Helsinki. After the Helsinki drawing school she studied in Paris at the Académie Julian under Tony Robert-Fleury from 1875 (Wikipedia, "Maria Wiik"; the years she stayed are given differently, up to 1880). The Mon Journal t.12 index has «Wiik (Maria-Katarina), élève à l'atelier Julian : 198».

Relevance to Marie

A fellow pupil in the women's studio at Julian's, one of the strongest of the group:

• 076.0249 (1877-11-27): «Mlle Wiik», named when the concours heads are labelled for the judges (076.0248).
• 076.0319 (1877-12-05): Marie goes to the Louvre «avec une Finlandaise nommée Wiik».
• 079.0215 (1878-04-04): «Viik a la médaille (ceci est assez naturel)» (tagged VIIK.md, a duplicate stub of this entry).
• 084.0025 (1879-01-14): in the concours Marie wins, Wiik, «qui a eu la médaille à l'avant-dernier concours est huitième», and Marie consoles her.
• 085.0466 (1879-06-28): to the Louvre with Wiik, where Lundahl is making a copy.

References in Diary

• First mentioned: 1877-11-27 (076.0249)
• Key entries: 1877-12-05, 1878-04-04, 1879-01-14, 1879-06-28, 1879-11-10