page_title: Berndt Godenhjelm
section_title: Works and memberships
hierarchical_section_title: Berndt Godenhjelm / Works and memberships
context_page_description: Berndt Abraham Godenhjelm was a Finnish painter.
context_section_description: During his career, he painted dozens of altarpieces including ones for the Mäntyharju church, the Lovage church, the Liperi church (1842), the Jämsä church (1848), the Ikaalinen church (1874) and Finnish Lutheran Church in Sitka, Alaska founded by Uno Cygnaeus in 1840. Some of his works have been preserved at the Tampere Art Museum and the National Museum of Finland. Godenhjelm was head teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki drawing school from 1848 to 1869. He was an honorary member of the Artists' Association of Finland  in 1864, and a board member of the Finnish Art Society from 1852 to 1868.
caption: Photograph of Godenhjelm, likely from the early 1860s
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