A student of art history starts a hunt for the story behind an obscure 1700's German painter. Can it help her finish a master's thesis?

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…I had been utterly frustrated with the odd jobs I was surviving by, I had likely never managed to motivate myself and return to my master’s thesis to finish my degree. My studies in art history had been miserably delayed. There were probably several reasons for my procrastination. After the final months of student-support gone by, I had ended up working a low-wage job at the Helsinki Kunsthalle. I had hoped that the job…

By Teemu Korpijärvi