Johanna Lindfors
Art historian, writer, storyteller
Specialized in:
Art, biographies, lectures
Why do you create?
Writing about past lives and histories gives me a fascinating insight into other people's joys and sorrows, interests and disappointments. It is also presenting me several worlds, several possibilities and adventures, all the while living my own life.
What random things are inspiring for you at the moment:
playing piano, warm blanket which was my grandmother's, Paris, having discussions with teenagers, old books, Agatha Christie, candlelight
Bio
Johanna Lindfors is an art expert and historian, writer and media enthusiast. She has two decades of experience in the international art market; the museum side as well as the auctioneering. Johanna holds degrees in history of art and architecture from University of East Anglia, England, and University of Helsinki.
Her passion lies in innovative communication. She has been a regular columnist in the biggest Finnish interior magazine and an expert, presenter and screenwriter in the acclaimed tv-series 'Antiikkia, Antiikkia'. She has also curated exhibitions and assists several private collectors with their art purchases.
Her publications include 'Elämäni ranskattarena' ('My life as a French Woman'), a book about finding pleasure in living the French style, and 'Ilmiöiden kauneus - Gunnel Nyman ja Dora Jung' ('The Beauty of Phenomena - Gunnel Nyman and Dora Jung'). At the moment, she is writing a book on Jean Sibelius' daughters and doing research on Eero Järnefelt and Tancred Borenius, a Finnish art historian, who had an influence on the Royal Collection.