Åke Hellman
Åke Fredrik Hellman was a Swedish-speaking Finnish still life and portrait artist and art professor. He has worked as art teacher at the University of Helsinki. In 1963, he received the order of the Lion of Finland.
Åke Hellman was married to the painter Karin Hellman, née Wisuri, who was 11 days older, until her death on 25 February 2004. They met when studying together at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture 1934–1938, and have the son Karl-Johan and the daughter Åsa who is a ceramist.
Människan och målaren, a biography of Hellman written by Ulla-Lena Lundberg and Erik Kruskopf, was published until Hellman's 90th birthday in 2005.
Hellman turned 100 on 19 July 2015. He died on 18 December 2017 at the age of 102.
