Must Read: Trove Jansson, The Life Story Of Her Children’s Classic Art During Hitler Era

The creator of the Moomins always considers herself as the first and foremost a painter and the fact that this side of her work was mostly ignored by her great sadness and frustration, Tove Jansson. Next year, London will feature "Adventures in Moomin Land" at the Southbank Centre, an exhibition of her art allowing us to see both sides of her broad output.

Tove Jansson arts are created with different approach these coming exhibitions will emphasize the strength which inculcates her artworks and derived from the fearless life she chooses to live, refusing to submit to the restrictive standard of modern Finnish society, according to BBC.

Tove Jansson was the daughter of the Finnish artist Signe Hammersten-Jansson also known as Ham and Finnish sculptor Viktor Jansson where she grew up in an artistic environment. By the young age of 14, her talent in painting was started appearing and she followed the step of her mother to the caustic magazine Garm.

In the art school of her mother, she was considered as a bright and extravagant student for her mystical, fairytale quality, and excellent artworks. Tove Jansson's portraits she painted in the 1930's and '40s revealed her progress as an artist and her strongest works of her time.

During the war era, it was a traumatic experience for Tove Jansson but also brought motivation to her art. As noted by Just Opened London, she had been insulting Hitler in the pages of the magazine called Garm since 1935, her cartoons revealed into a pathetic and funny clown behind the monster who jeopardized Europe. Finland at that time had agreed on an alliance with Germany in 1940.

Tove Jansson's work was the root of the alarm among the authorities and the magazine Garm came critically close to being charged with successive insulting the head of a friendly state. Her bravery in fighting against public opinion can't be underestimated noting it was Hitler's time if the war had ended differently the price for her charge would be fatal.

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