Ivar Hörhammer
Ivar Gabriel Hörhammer (11 February 1884 – 3 February 1953) was a Finnish art dealer, journalist and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland 1909–1911 for the Social Democratic Party.[1] After his political career Hörhammer was one of the leading art gallerists in Finland.[2]
Ivar Hörhammer | |
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 Ivar Hörhammer in 1909 | |
| Member of the Finnish Parliament for Uusimaa constituency | |
| In office 1 June 1909 – 31 January 1911 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 February 1884 Örebro, Sweden |
| Died | 3 February 1953 (aged 68) Helsinki, Finland |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party of Finland |
Life
Hörhammer was the son of Bavarian brewmaster Karl Ludwig Hörhammer (1835–1913) and Norwegian-Danish Josefine Charlotte von Wildenrath (b. 1843). As Hörhammer was born, the family moved to Turku, Finland. Since the age of 16, he worked as an office clerk in Helsinki.[1]
Hörhammer joined the labour movement after the 1905 general strike. He worked at the Swedish-language newspapers Arbetaren, Social-Demokraten and Arbetet and published the monthly Folktribunen. In 1910–1912, he was the editor of Arbetet. In the 1909 parliamentary election, Hörhammer was elected to the Parliament of Finland. He was a member of the Finnish delegation in the Second International 1910 congress in Copenhagen.[1] In 1915, Hörhammer was sentenced for six months of lèse-majesté for an article published in Arbetaren in November 1910.[3]
After his prison term, Hörhammer left politics and became an art dealer. In September 1918, he founded the Galerie Hörhammer which was active in Helsinki until 2016. During the 1920s, Hörhammer became one of the prominent art gallerists and patrons of Finland. Hörhammer was also a talented chess player. He was the chairman of Finnish Chess Federation and FIDE awarded arbiter.[1]
References
- Reitala, Aimo (13 October 2004). "Hörhammer, Ivar (1884–1953)" (in Finnish). The National Biography of Finland. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
- Fraser, Inga. "″New relations, unsuspected harmonies″: Modern British Art in Finland, 1906–1964" (PDF). FNG Research. 2016 (4): 8. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
- Bondestam, Anna (2022). Arbetet: sanomalehti 1910-luvun Turussa ja ihmiset sen ympärillä (in Finnish). Helsinki: Finnish Society for Labour History. pp. 45–46. ISBN 978-952-74661-3-1.