Akseli Gallen-Kallela

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Akseli Gallen-Kallela was a renowned Finnish painter and designer best known for his national romantic works and illustrations of the Kalevala.

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instanceOf Finnish person
designer
graphic artist
human
painter
birthName Axel Waldemar Gallén
countryOfCitizenship Finland
Grand Duchy of Finland
dateOfBirth 1865-04-26
dateOfDeath 1931-03-07
designed Gallen-Kallela’s studio home Kalela in Ruovesi
Tarvaspää studio home in Espoo
educatedAt Académie Julian
Finnish Art Society Drawing School
familyName Gallen-Kallela
Gallén
genre history painting
landscape painting
mythological painting
givenName Axel
hasWorkInCollection Ateneum Art Museum
Finnish National Gallery
Gallen-Kallela Museum
National Museum of Finland
influenced Finnish national identity
influencedBy Finnish folklore
Kalevala
knownFor Finnish national romantic style
illustrations of the Kalevala
national romantic paintings
languagesSpoken Finnish
French
Swedish
movement Art Nouveau
National Romanticism
Symbolism
name Akseli Gallen-Kallela
notableWork Ad Astra
Boy with a Crow
Kalevala frescoes for the Finnish Pavilion at the Paris Exposition Universelle (1900)
Kullervo’s Curse
Lake Keitele
Lemminkäinen’s Mother
Old Woman with a Cat
Self-Portrait at the Easel
Self-Portrait with a Skull
The Aino Myth illustrations
The Aino Triptych
The Defense of the Sampo
The Forging of the Sampo
The Fratricide
The Kullervo Series
occupation designer
graphic artist
illustrator
painter
placeOfBirth Grand Duchy of Finland
Pori
placeOfDeath Stockholm
Sweden
residence Helsinki
Paris
Ruovesi
spouse Mary Slöör

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Akseli Gallen-Kallela ("Gallen-Kallela")
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Akseli Gallen-Kallela
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Hietaniemi Cemetery
notableBurial

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