#tuulikki pietilä

[vintagesapphics]

Tove Jansson (right), creator of Moomin, and her life partner Tuulikki Pietilä (left), an accomplished Finnish artist

#year unknown #moomin #tove jansson #lgbt history #lesbian #wlw #lgbt #vintage lesbians #queer history #history #sapphic #lesbian history #tuulikki pietilä

[random-brushstrokes]

Tuulikki Pietilä (Finnish, 1917-2009)

#women painters #tuulikki pietilä #finnish art #animals in art

[rye-in-a-coat]

Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä in Hawai'i during their trip across the world. Footage from Matkalla Toven Kanssa.

#pics and flicks #moomin #moomins #tove jansson #tuulikki pietilä #hawaii #KÖT

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tove with animals 🩷

#i wish i had a better recording of the first film aaa #travels with tove #haru: island of the solitary #tove and tooti in europe #tove jansson #tuulikki pietilä #psipsina #ah i forgot to cover up the youtube moomin logo in the haru clips. oops

[pierogish]

day 8/8

Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä on the island of Klovharun

Artworks of Tove Jansson Artworks of Tuulikki Pietilä

photos i drew from and a few others under a cut! beautiful place.

#try telling me this isnt the best way to live a life #tove jansson #tuulikki pietilä #moomin #well kinda #they both are big inspirations for me like artists #and just like that. for life #my art

[ilikecarsandlike4people]

Today on Finnish facts, I want to tell you guys something about the Moomins, since I've been drawing them a bunch:

This is artist Tove Jansson (9.8.1914 - 27.6.2001), the woman behind our beloved Moomin characters.

She was a Finnish-Swedish author, painter and a cartoonist, best known for her Moomin characters. She is one of the most well known and loved artists in Finland. Tove was a rebel, a woman who liked to break expectations and stereotypes.

She never married, but found the love of her life in fellow artist Tuulikki Pietilä, who was one of the most influential women in Finnish art of woodcarving graphics. Tove and Tuulikki became the first LGBTQ+ couple to ever attend the independence day president's ball, and they travelled the world together. Here they are, shaking hands with the President and his wife.

Tove and Tuulikki lived together until Tove's death in 2001. Tuulikki died in 2009, aged 92.

Many things in the Moominvalley reflect Tove's life:

Tiuhti and Viuhti are based on Tove and her first girlfriend Vivica Blandner, and the big King ruby they carry with them is a reflection of their love. A light so bright, you can see it up to space. "Tuntui kuin he kiven liekeissä olisivat nähneet kaiken kauneimman, rohkeimman ja hienoimman mitä he halusivat ajatella ja kokea kerran uudelleen." (Taikurin hattu, 1948) "In the flames of the stone, they felt like they could see the most beautiful, bravest and finest they wanted to imagine and experience once more." from the book Finn Family Moomintroll (1948)

Mörkö (The Groke), that follows them, is the coldness of the world that wants to take the ruby away and freeze them over. Tuulikki inspired the Moomin character Tuutikki.

The Moomins are and will always be a story of love and acceptance. We need to remember Tove and Tuulikki and their love. And to remember them as artists. Here are some of their works: Tove Jansson:

Tuulikki Pietilä

Sources: Anteeksipyytelemätön Tove Jansson | Amnesty (only in Finnish) Tove Jansson - Wikipedia Tuulikki Pietilä - Wikipedia

#finnish facts #more finnish facts #tove jansson #tuulikki pietilä #moomins #moominvalley #muumit #muumilaakso

[sollyglo]

Tooti ❤

#my art <3 #moomin fanart #moomin #moominvalley #too ticky #tuu tikki #tuulikki pietilä #moomin tooticky #moominvalley fanart

[elsaa-hosk]

#instagram stories #elsa hosk #tuulikki pietilä

[amatesura]

Tove (2020) | dir. Zaida Bergroth

#tove #perioddramaedit #worldcinemaedit #filmedit #filmgifs #tove jansson #tuulikki pietilä #alma pöysti #joanna haartti #zaida bergroth #the moomins #suomi #finland #*

[flowerbloom-arts]

It's Too-Ticky's real girlfriend's birthday y'all better celebrate (/hj)

#moomins #moominvalley #art #tove jansson #tuulikki pietilä #the moomins #moomin #too ticky #moomins day #happy moomins day

[tristealven]

Every spring, it’s the scurvy-grass flower that comes first. It thrives only in the north, along the coasts where seamen once planted it. The flower is white and tiny and has a sharp smell. The next to come is the wild pansy, and then all the others in a perfect frenzy of blossoming.

Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä, Notes from an Island, trans. by Thomas Teal (Sort Of Books, 2021)

#tove jansson #tuulikki pietilä #spring

[sbsbbshdj]

I watched the clone high and decided to draw Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietele in the style of the series

I don't really like it, but it was cool to draw this

#moomins #moominvalley #the moomins #moomin #moomitroll #tove jansson #tuulikki pietilä #too ticky #clone high

[skirwitte]

thinking about them (tiny wooden figurines of Tove Jansson and her partner Tuulikki Pietilä, most likely made by Tove to look at while working in her studio)

#LOVE IS REAL #tove jansson #tuulikki pietilä #moomins #lesbian history #queer history #lgbtqia

[rye-in-a-coat]

Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä in Hawai'i during their trip across the world. Footage from Matkalla Toven Kanssa.

#pics and flicks #moomin #moomins #tove jansson #tuulikki pietilä #kili #the florist's #hawaii #the past

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this photo is displayed in the museum which is v nice

#tove jansson #tuulikki pietilä #tableaux #i already have a version in my files and whilst it's the full pic it's teeny tiny

[cmonbartender]

Moominhouse built by Tuulikki Pietilä, Pentti Eistola, and Tove Jansson (1980-90s)

#sculpture #moomin #tuulikki pietilä #pentti eistola #tove jansson #1980s #1990s