Introduction
Imagine a child born in 1914 into a family living in an untroubled but cramped artist’s studio in Helsinki, Finland. Imagine an adventurous mother who left her clerical family and teaching post in Stockholm to live an illustrator’s life on the other side of the Baltic Sea. Now imagine a father, the first in his family to become an artist, who immediately started to sculpt his newborn daughter’s future.
Imagine Tove Jansson.