![]() From 1929 until 1953 Jansson drew humorous illustrations and political cartoons for the left-leaning anti-Fascist Finnish-Swedish magazine Garm, and it was there that what was to become Jansson’s most famous creation, Moomintroll, a hippopotamus-like character with a dreamy disposition, made his first appearance. After attending art schools in both Stockholm and Paris, she returned to Helsinki, where in the 1940s and ’50s she won acclaim for her paintings and murals. Her first illustration was published when she was fifteen years old four years later a picture book appeared under a pseudonym. Jansson loved books as a child and set out from an early age to be an artist. Winters were spent in the family’s art-filled studio and summers in a fisherman’s cottage on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, a setting that would later figure in Jansson’s writing for adults and children. Her father was a sculptor and her mother a graphic designer and illustrator. ![]() ![]() Tove Jansson (1914–2001) was born in Helsinki into Finland’s Swedish-speaking minority. ![]()
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