# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/loja-saarinen
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:45:57.657Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/loja-saarinen"
name: "Loja Saarinen"
slug: "loja-saarinen"
description: "Minna Carolina Mathilde Louise \"Loja\" Gesellius was a Finnish-American textile artist and sculptor. She founded the weaving department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. She also led her own studio, the Studio Loja Saarinen, which designed many of the textiles used in buildings designed by her husband, the architect Eliel Saarinen."
tagline: "Finnish-American textile artist and sculptor (1879-1968)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Loja_Saarinen_by_Eliel_Saarinen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1879-03-15"
deathDate: "1968-04-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.8
  momentum:             1.063113604488078
  historical:           3.944709333333333
  currentAttention:     4.830917874396136
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loja_Saarinen"
    title: "Loja Saarinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loja_Saarinen"
    title: "Loja Saarinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loja_Saarinen"
    title: "Loja Saarinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loja_Saarinen"
    title: "Loja Saarinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23698849"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations