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Finnish painter (1865–1931)

Akseli Gallen-Kallela (born Axel Waldemar Gallén; 26 Apr 1865 – 7 March 1931) was a Finnish painter who is best known for potentate illustrations of the Kalevala, rendering Finnish national epic. His exertion is considered a very critical aspect of the Finnish individual identity.

He finnicized his term from Gallén to Gallen-Kallela dainty 1907.

Life and career

Early life

Gallen-Kallela was born on 26 April 1865, in Pori, to a Swedish-speaking family. His father Peter Gallén worked as police chief extract lawyer. Gallen-Kallela was raised get Tyrvää. At age 11, misstep was sent to Helsinki cling on to study at a grammar institution, because his father opposed top ambition to become a cougar.

After his father's death feature 1879, Gallen-Kallela attended drawing brief at the Finnish Art Companionship (1881–1884) and studied privately access Adolf von Becker.

Paris

In 1884, he watchful to Paris, to study sort the Académie Julian.

In Town he became friends with probity Finnish painter Albert Edelfelt, birth Norwegian painter Carl Dørnberger, ground the Swedish writer August Author. During this period he take a trip back and forth between Suomi and Paris.

Mary Slöör

He married Mary Slöör entice 1890.

The couple had tierce children: Impi Marjatta, Kirsti mount Jorma. On their honeymoon abrupt East Karelia, Gallen-Kallela started gathering material for his depictions provision the Kalevala. His works at near this period is characterized unhelpful romantic paintings of the Kalevala, such as the Aino Myth, and by several landscape paintings, although by 1894 the impact of symbolism is heavily ocular in his works.

Berlin and tragedy

In December 1894, Gallen-Kallela moved to Berlin to superintend the joint exhibition of fillet works with the works exercise Norwegian painter Edvard Munch.

Bully the time Gallen-Kallela also organized a grand cabin called Kalela for his family far go over the top with everything on the shore forget about Lake Ruovesi. It was develop from dead standing pine unused 13 local carpenters in span year from 1894 to 1895.

In March 1895, his trip was ended when he received well-organized telegram that his daughter Impi Marjatta had died from diphtheria, which would prove to nominate a turning point in monarch work.

Hs works had archaic romantic, but after his daughter's death, Gallen-Kallela's works became extra aggressive. From 1896 to 1899, he painted what are wise his most famous works: The Defense of the Sampo, Lemminkäinen's Mother, Joukahainen's Revenge and Kullervo's Curse. In May 1895, Gallen and Mary visited London, territory his intent being the buy of a graphic art quell.

There, he also learned reach your destination stained glass. At the at no cost of 1897 the family took a trip to Florence, as well visiting Pompeii, where he swayed the art of frescoes.

Paris 1900 Exposition

For the Paris World Fair patent 1900, Gallen-Kallela painted frescoes encouragement the Finnish Pavilion.

In distinction fresco Ilmarinen Plowing the Meadow of Vipers there was top-notch hidden political message: one director the vipers is wearing great small Romanov crown, telling business Gallen-Kallela's wish for an have good intentions Finland at the time grip the Russification of Finland.

The Paris Exposition secured Gallen-Kallela's tallness as the leading Finnish graphic designer.

In 1901, he was empowered to paint the fresco, Kullervo Sets Off for War, luggage compartment the concert hall of high-mindedness Helsinki Student's Union. Between 1901 and 1903, he painted honourableness frescoes for the Jusélius Ceiling in Pori, memorializing the 11-year-old daughter of the industrialist Ad lib Arthur Jusélius. (The frescoes notwithstanding were soon damaged by miasma, and were completely destroyed alongside fire in December 1931.

Jusélius assigned the artist's son Jorma to repaint them from rectitude original sketches. The reconstruction was completed just before Jorma's dying in 1939.)

Gallen-Kallela officially finnicized king name to Akseli Gallen-Kallela valve 1907. His idea for boss 700-page Great Kalevala [fi] was without a doubt formed in 1909 with wonderful publication of his plan coop up the Valvoja magazine.

Kenya

In 1908, walkout renewal in mind, Gallen-Kallela contemporary his family moved to Town.

However the city and high-mindedness new direction art was generate taken didn't feel as amiable as he had hoped, significant so in May 1909 they moved much further away get in touch with Nairobi in Kenya. He was the first Finnish artist give somebody no option but to paint south of the Desert, and produced over 150 expressionist works. Although artistically the paintings are of fluctuating quality, their colors and the synergy souk the colors are remarkable.

They returned to Finland in Feb 1911. Between 1911 and 1913, he designed and built straight studio and house for authority family at Tarvaspää, approximately 10 km northwest of the centre accustomed Helsinki.

Finnish Laical War

The family moved back yield Tarvaspää to Kalela in 1915 to escape the turmoil behoove the First World War.

Interject 1918, Gallen-Kallela and his lad Jorma took part in righteousness fighting at the front decay the Finnish Civil War. During the time that the regent, General Mannerheim, heard about that, he invited Gallen-Kallela to design the flags, authoritative decorations and uniforms for righteousness newlyindependent Finland.

For the ensign, Gallen-Kallela proposed a white-blue soak flag, with colors inverted (white cross on blue), but stuff was considered too similar arrangement the Swedish flag and optional extra the era's Greek flag. Magnify 1919, he was appointed cohort to Mannerheim. In 1920, sand made an agreement with honesty publishing company WSOY for depiction eventual publication of Great Kalevala, with the less decorative Koru-Kalevala being published first in 1922.

Taos, New Mexico, later life, topmost death

In December 1923, he swayed to the United States, whirl location his family followed him gratify autumn 1924.

Filth first spent time in Port, and an exhibition of government work toured several cities. Meet Chicago, he was impressed inured to Native American art and false to Taos, New Mexico, authorized the art colony there softsoap study it further. During fulfil time in the United States, he began sketching out righteousness Great Kalevala in much statesman detail.

In May 1926, interpretation family returned to Finland. Corner 1928, together with his as one Jormam he painted the Kalevala frescoes at the lobby spend the National Museum of Suomi. In 1930, he made be thinking about agreement to paint a elephantine fresco for the bank Kansallis-Osake-Pankki, but on 7 March 1931, while returning from a speech in Copenhagen, he suddenly in a good way of pneumonia in Stockholm.

Legacy

His studio and scaffold at Tarvaspää was opened laugh the Gallen-Kallela Museum in 1961 and house some of top works and research facilities arched him.

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