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Akseli Gallen-Kallela - The Great Kalevala, sketch for ornaments.

The Great Kalevala, sketch for ornaments. (1927)

Akseli Gallen-Kallela (Finnish, 1865 - 1931)
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Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Akseli Gallen-Kallela was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic (illustration, below). His work is considered very important for the Finnish national identity. He changed his name from Gallén to Gallen-Kallela in 1907.

Gallen-Kallela was born Axel Waldemar Gallén in Pori, Finland in a Swedish-speaking family. His father Peter Gallén worked as police chief and lawyer. Gallen-Kallela was raised in Tyrvää. At the age of 11 he was sent to Helsinki to study at a grammar school, because his father opposed his ambition to become a painter. After his father's death in 1879, Gallen-Kallela attended drawing classes at the Finnish Art Society (1881–1884) and studied privately under Adolf von Becker.

In 1884 he moved to Paris, to study at the Académie Julian. In Paris he became friends with the Finnish painter Albert Edelfelt, the Norwegian painter Carl Dørnberger, and the Swedish writer August Strindberg. During this period he traveled back and forth between Finland and Paris.

He married Mary Slöör in 1890. The couple had three children, Impi Marjatta, Kirsti and Jorma. On their honeymoon to East Karelia, Gallen-Kallela started collecting material for his depictions of the Kalevala. This period is characterized by romantic paintings of the Kalevala, such as the Aino Myth, and by several landscape paintings, although by 1894 the influence of symbolism is heavily visible in his works.

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Portrait of Professor E. R. Neovius

Portrait of Professor E. R. Neovius (1898)

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Ships in the South Harbor, sketch

Ships in the South Harbor, sketch

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Kukkahattuinen nainen, harjoitelma

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The Lamenting Boat

The Lamenting Boat (1906)

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Daddy reading the Story of Mirza and Mirjam for Little Saima

Daddy reading the Story of Mirza and Mirjam for Little Saima (1886)

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Portrait of a Woman

Portrait of a Woman (1884)

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Iltarusko visuvedellä

Iltarusko visuvedellä (1891)

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Indian On Horseback

Indian On Horseback (1925)

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Kullervo Cursing

Kullervo Cursing (1899)

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The Giant Pike

The Giant Pike (1904)

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Taos Home in Sunlight

Taos Home in Sunlight (1925)

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Lake Keitele

Lake Keitele (1904)

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Koru-Kalevala, The Illustrated Kalevala, experiments for Poem I and II

Koru-Kalevala, The Illustrated Kalevala, experiments for Poem I and II (1922)

Akseli Gallen-Kallela (Finnish, 1865 - 1931)
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