Pekka Ryynänen

About the artist

Pekka Martti Ryynänen is a Finnish painter, printmaker and sculptor, born in Helsinki on 2 October 1949 (Wikipedia (fi)). He studied at the Free Art School (Vapaa Taidekoulu) in Helsinki from 1969 to 1975 and made his debut in Helsinki in 1976 (Wikipedia (fi)). He taught at Taideteollinen korkeakoulu, the Helsinki university of art and design, from 1983 to 1987 and at the school of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts from 1987 to 1990 (Wikipedia (fi)).

He chaired the Helsinki Artists' Association from 1981 to 1983, sat on the board of the Artists' Association of Finland from 1985 to 1989 and chaired the State exhibition committee from 1986 to 1990 (Wikipedia (fi)). Wikidata records works by him in the collection of the Finnish National Gallery (Wikidata). Bukowskis catalogued the collection's untitled watercolour and gouache of 1988, signed and dated -88, under his name, listing the artist as born in Finland in 1949 (Bukowskis; Joseph Clark Collection).

Sources

1. Wikipedia (fi): Pekka Ryynänen (s. 1949)
2. Wikidata: Pekka Ryynänen (Q11887185)
3. Bukowskis: Pekka Ryynänen, watercolour / gouache, signed and dated -88
4. Joseph Clark Collection