page_title: Sini Manninen
section_title: Family and childhood
hierarchical_section_title: Sini Manninen / Biography / Family and childhood
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Devant la maison familiale de Liperi avec un veau.
context_page_description: Sini Manninen was a Finnish painter and artist, trained at the Académie des Beaux Arts de Helsinki in Finland. She produced the majority of her works in France, where she moved to in 1973, more precisely, to Montmartre region of Paris. Mastering many painting techniques under various disciplines, naïve art remained her fondest style.
context_section_description: A youngest daughter of Elis Olavi Carolus Manninen and Elisabeth Budnik, Sini Manninen grew up in Joensuu, Karelia, where her father officiated as a pastor before becoming a member of Parliament during the 1960s. Later, the family moved several kilometers to the small town of Liperi, where nature and its colors, as well as animals, will became an inexhaustible source of artistic inspiration.  
  In 1965, she moved to Helsinki to enter the Academy of Fine Arts (Suomen taideakatemia) until 1969. During this time, she trained with other renowned artists such as Saara Tikka, Inari Krohn, Tarja Unkari, Kari Lindström and Risto Vilhunen. Between 1970 and 1973, she went to work in a herring plant in Norway to earn a living and participated in the Oslo Young Painter's Association in Norway from 1970 to 1977.
caption: Sini Manninen in 1978, with a calf in front of the family home in Liperi
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