Magnus Hjalmar Munsterhjelm (19 October 1840 – 2 April 1905) was a Finnish landscape painter. ^[2]

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Hjalmar Munsterhjelm
Munsterhjelm in 1871–1878
Born	(1840-10-19)19 October 1840 Tuulos, Grand Duchy of Finland
Died	2 April 1905(1905-04-02) (aged 64) Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland
Education	Member Academy of Arts (1874)[1]
Known for	Painting
Style	Classicism
Movement	Realism

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Munsterhjelm was born at Toivoniemi Manor of Tuulos, Finland. He was the son of Gustaf Riggert Munsterhjelm (1806-1872) and his wife and Mathilda Charlotta Eleonora von Essen (1818-1895). His father first sent him to the Turku Maritime School. In the early 1860s, he studied art at Düsseldorf with Werner Holmberg (1830-1860) and Oswald Achenbach (1827-1905) and at Karlsruhe under Hans Gude.^[3][4]

His painted landscapes were influenced by the romanticism of the Düsseldorf school, often featuring nature as a mood rather than a realistic subject. His landscape "October Evening After the First Snowfall" (1883) was purchased by Alexander III in 1885; the painting is now in the Ateneum in Helsinki.^[5][2] Two of his works, "The Evening, in Finland" and "The Night" were displayed at the 1878 Paris Exposition.^[6] His work "Evening of the First Spring" was also on display at the 1900 Paris Exposition.^[7][2]

He married Olga Mathilda Tanninen (1856–1929) in 1875. They had four children, one of whom was the sculptor John Munsterhjelm (1879–1925). Munsterhjelm became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in 1897.^[8]

He kept being highly productive all the way until his death in 1905 in Helsinki.^[9][2]

In current times his moonlight paintings are some his most famous and popular.^[10][11]

• Shepherd in the Alps, 1860
• Road in Finland, 1865
• Peasant Woman from Bayern, 1860s
• Birches in Summer, 1869
• Village Street in Schwartzwald, 1870
• Landscape from Hohenaschau, 1871
• Häme Castle, 1872
• Winter Landscape from Tuulos, 1874
• Woodland in Hauho, Häme
• Olavinlinna (Winter), 1870s
• Moonlight in Barösund, late 1870s
• Moonlit Night, 1883
• October Evening After the First Snowfall, 1883
• Morning Atmosphere (Island View), 1884
• Moonlight, 1885
• Crack Willows, 1897

• Finnish art