Lotte Laserstein
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"Der Violinist Jouko Ilvonen"
Signed Lotte Laserstein and dated 1944. Oil on panel 122 x 91 cm. We thank Anna-Carola Krausse for the information about the current work.
Exhibitions
Sturesalen, Kalmar Slott, Sweden, "Hedersutställning Lotte Laserstein", 25 May - 21 September 1991.
Literature
Anna-Carola Krausse, "Lotte Laserstein. Life and Work", Catalogue raisonné on CD, Berlin, 2006, p. 365.
More information
Jouko Ilvonen was a Finnish violinist and child actor best known for his appearances in several Finnish films around the 1930s–1940s and for his early musical activities. As a youngster he appears in films such as Pikku pelimanni (1939) and its later reworking Pikku pelimannista viulun kuninkaaksi (1949), the story of a violin-playing orphan who is taken under the wing of a music professor.
Ilvonen’s screen appearances grew out of a wider childhood involvement with music: he is listed among the young violinists and singing children who featured in music-rich Finnish film and radio productions of the era, sharing billing in programs and concert contexts with well-known contemporaries. These early engagements show him as part of the vibrant small-town and national music scene that produced several notable Finnish instrumentalists.
Though not a household name internationally, Jouko Ilvonen’s career illustrates a familiar mid-20th-century path in Finland where talented young musicians moved between concert stages, radio and the silver screen, contributing to the country’s musical culture both as performers and community music organizers.