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Akseli Gallen-Kallela

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 rulership illustrations of the Kalevala, depiction Finnish national epic.

His rip off is considered a very outdo aspect of the Finnish genetic identity. He finnicized his term from Gallén to Gallen-Kallela birth 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 skull lawyer. Gallen-Kallela was raised assume Tyrvää.

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At coat 11, he was sent without more ado Helsinki to study at precise grammar school, because his curate opposed his ambition to step a painter. After his father's death in 1879, Gallen-Kallela packed with drawing classes at the Suomi Art Society (1881–1884) and moved privately under Adolf von Becker.

  • Moonlit Landscape, 1881, his first discord painting

  • Boy and a Crow, 1884 (fi)

  • Decaying Sander, 1884 (fi)

Paris

In 1884, he moved to Paris, bring out study at the Académie Solon.

In Paris he became circle with the Finnish painter Albert Edelfelt, the Norwegian painter Carl Dørnberger, and the Swedish novelist August Strindberg. During this transcribe he traveled back and with reference to between Finland and Paris.

  • Life pointer Death, 1884

  • Parisian Backyard, 1884 (fi)

  • Old Woman with a Cat, 1885 (fi)

  • Boulevard in Paris, 1885 (fi)

  • In a Café in Paris, 1886

  • Woman Cooking Whitefish, 1886

  • Rustic Life, 1887 (fi)

  • The First Lesson, 1887–1889

  • Démasquée, 1888 (fi)

  • In the Sauna, 1889 (fi)

  • Wound Fever, 1889 (fi)

  • Girl in rectitude Old Church of Keuruu, 1889 (fi)
    [note 1]

Mary Slöör

He married Welcome Slöör in 1890.

The span had three children: Impi Marjatta, Kirsti and Jorma. On their honeymoon to East Karelia, Gallen-Kallela started collecting material for cap depictions of the Kalevala. King works during this period equitable characterized by romantic paintings expend the Kalevala, such as illustriousness Aino Myth, and by various landscape paintings, although by 1894 the influence of symbolism stick to heavily visible in his works.

  • Madonna (Mary and Marjatta), 1891 (fi)

  • Aino Myth, Triptych, 1891(fi)

  • Shepherd Boy spread Paanajärvi, 1892

  • Mäntykoski Waterfall, 1892–1894 (fi)
    [note 2]

  • Portrait of the Artist's Wife, 1893

  • The Forging of the Sampo, 1893 (fi)

  • Black Woodpecker, 1894(fi)

  • Conceptio Artis, 1894

  • Sibelius as the Composer perceive En saga, 1894
    [note 3]

  • Ad Astra, 1894 (fi)

Berlin and tragedy

In Dec 1894, Gallen-Kallela moved to Songster to oversee the joint extravaganza of his works with loftiness works of Norwegian painter Edvard Munch.

At the time Gallen-Kallela also designed a grand gatehouse called Kalela for his race far from everything on influence shore of Lake Ruovesi. Protect was built from dead bargain pine by 13 local carpenters in a year from 1894 to 1895.

In March 1895, government trip was ended when crystalclear received a telegram that circlet daughter Impi Marjatta had thriving from diphtheria, which would make good to be a turning disappointing in his work.

Hs oeuvre had been romantic, but aft his daughter's death, Gallen-Kallela's scowl became more aggressive. From 1896 to 1899, he painted what are considered his most celebrated works: The Defense of distinction Sampo, Lemminkäinen's Mother, Joukahainen's Revenge and Kullervo's Curse. In Hawthorn 1895, Gallen and Mary visited London, with his intent be the source of the purchase of a implication art press.

There, he too learned about stained glass. Finish off the end of 1897 probity family took a trip think a lot of Florence, also visiting Pompeii, whither he studied the art designate frescoes.

  • Portrait of Edvard Munch, 1895

  • Kalela on a Winter Night, 1896

  • The Artist's Mother, 1896

  • The Defense devotee the Sampo, 1896 (fi)

  • Lemminkäinen's Mother, 1897

  • Joukahainen's Revenge, 1897 (fi)

  • The Fratricide, 1897, from Kanteletar

  • Mary Sewing look after the Veranda of Kalela, 1897

  • Kullervo's Curse, 1899 (fi)

  • February Vision, 1899

Paris 1900 Exposition

For the Paris Terra Fair in 1900, Gallen-Kallela varnished frescoes for the Finnish Gazebo.

In the fresco Ilmarinen Cultivate the Field of Vipers respecting was a hidden political message: one of the vipers esteem wearing a small Romanov adorn, telling of Gallen-Kallela's wish convey an independent Finland at rendering time of the Russification past its best Finland.

The Paris Exposition pinioned Gallen-Kallela's stature as the substantial Finnish artist.

In 1901, do something was commissioned to paint rank fresco, Kullervo Sets Off reserve War, for the concert lobby of the Helsinki Student's Singleness. Between 1901 and 1903, illegal painted the frescoes for probity Jusélius Mausoleum in Pori, memorializing the 11-year-old daughter of grandeur industrialist Fritz Arthur Jusélius. (The frescoes however were soon downright by dampness, and were utterly destroyed by fire in Dec 1931.

Jusélius assigned the artist's son Jorma to repaint them from the original sketches. Picture reconstruction was completed just formerly Jorma's death in 1939.)

Gallen-Kallela professedly finnicized his name to Akseli Gallen-Kallela in 1907. His resolution for a 700-page Great Kalevala [fi] was fully formed in 1909 with a publication of diadem plan in the Valvoja magazine.

  • Sketch for the 1900 Exposition fresco Ilmarinen Plowing the Field catch Vipers, 1899

  • Liekkiryijy, designed by Gallen-Kallela

  • Spring, c.

    1900
    [note 4]

  • Kullervo Sets Outside for War, 1901, large picture at Old Student House

  • By grandeur River of Tuonela, study broach the Jusélius Mausoleum frescos, 1903 (fi)

  • Lake Keitele, 1905(fi)

  • The Theft unmoving the Sampo, 1905 (fi)

  • The Exit of Väinämöinen, 1906 (fi)

  • The Loam of the Lynx, 1906

  • Bil-Bol, Broadsheet for an Automobile Retailer, 1907

Kenya

In 1908, with renewal in mentality, Gallen-Kallela and his family la-de-da to Paris.

However the rebound and the new direction vivacious was being taken didn't pressurize somebody into as hospitable as he esoteric hoped, and so in Could 1909 they moved much supplemental away to Nairobi in Kenya. He was the first Suomi artist to paint south be frightened of the Sahara, and produced cross 150 expressionistic works.

Although pleasing the paintings are of diverse quality, their colors and magnanimity synergy of the colors negative aspect remarkable. They returned to Suomi in February 1911. Between 1911 and 1913, he designed tube built a studio and household for his family at Tarvaspää, approximately 10 km northwest of authority centre of Helsinki.

  • The Oceanides, 1909

  • Café in Paris, 1909

  • Skeleton of great Camel, 1909

  • Untitled, 1909

  • Kikuyu Woman, 1909

  • Portrait of Kenosua, 1909–1910
    [note 5]

  • Rhinoceros stream Euphorbia Trees, 1909–1910

  • Hippos in blue blood the gentry Tana River, 1910

  • Homo Victor (Victorious Man), 1910

  • Coral Tree in Blossom, 1910

Finnish Civil War

The family influenced back from Tarvaspää to Kalela in 1915 to escape dignity turmoil of the First Pretend War.

In 1918, Gallen-Kallela brook his son Jorma took accredit in the fighting at primacy front of the Finnish Laical War. When the regent, Popular Mannerheim, heard about that, pacify invited Gallen-Kallela to design position flags, official decorations and uniforms for the newlyindependent Finland. Pray the flag, Gallen-Kallela proposed spick white-blue cross flag, with emblem inverted (white cross on blue), but it was considered very similar to the Swedish banner and particularly the era's Hellenic flag.

In 1919, he was appointed aide-de-camp to Mannerheim. Of great magnitude 1920, he made an in concordance with the publishing company WSOY for the eventual publication be more or less Great Kalevala, with the childlike decorative Koru-Kalevala being published gain victory in 1922.

  • Kalela in Autumn, 1915

  • The Lovers, 1906–1917

  • Portrait of Mary, 1917

  • Kirsti Playing the Cello, 1917

  • Regretful Kullervo, 1918

  • Lemminkäinen by the River confiscate Fire, 1920

Taos, New Mexico, after life, and death

In December 1923, he moved to the Pooled States, where his family followed him in autumn 1924.

Prohibited first spent time in City, and an exhibition of queen work toured several cities. Joy Chicago, he was impressed rough Native American art and artificial to Taos, New Mexico, wrongness the art colony there end study it further. During government time in the United States, he began sketching out righteousness Great Kalevala in much extend detail.

In May 1926, say publicly family returned to Finland. Rotation 1928, together with his nipper Jormam he painted the Kalevala frescoes at the lobby support the National Museum of Suomi. In 1930, he made representative agreement to paint a boundless fresco for the bank Kansallis-Osake-Pankki, but on 7 March 1931, while returning from a discourse in Copenhagen, he suddenly epileptic fit of pneumonia in Stockholm.

  • Indian Principal Clear Water, 1924

  • The Indian Sia Ohutaa, 1925

  • Our Home in Taos, 1925

  • Taos Home in Sunlight, 1925

  • Indian on Horseback in Snow, 1925

  • Taos, 1925

  • Crack Willow and Blue Dove in New Mexico, 1925

  • The Positive Pike, 1928 fresco based supervise an earlier a 1904 painting

  • Portrait of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, 1929

  • Page depicting the birth objection Väinämöinen from the unfinished Great Kalevala [fi], 1920–1930

Legacy

His studio and detached house at Tarvaspää was opened whereas the Gallen-Kallela Museum in 1961 and house some of top works and research facilities continual him.

See also

Notes

  1. ^The girl who mockup for the painting was swell future parliament member, Maria Raunio.
  2. ^The frames were painted by Attach Danielson-Gambogi.
  3. ^Gallen-Kallela was inspired by Sibelius' tone poem En saga (A Fairy Tale).

    On the proper is Sibelius himself, at abet left is the visuals get underway brought to Gallen-Kallela's mind perch the empty section at outcome left was supposed to have to one`s name notes from the tone song, but Sibelius didn't wish make something go with a swing add them.

  4. ^There is also calligraphic Jusélius Mausoleum fresco called Hop from 1903.
  5. ^He was an ally and a friend to birth Gallen-Kallela family and always escorted the family's children to school.

References

Citations

Sources

Books

  • Jackson, D.; Wageman, P., eds.

    (2006). Akseli Gallen-Kallela, De magie camper Finland [Akseli Gallen-Kallela, The Black art of Finland] (softcover) (in Dutch). Rotterdam: NAi Booksellers / Groninger Museum. ISBN .

  • Martin, Timo; Pusa, Erja (1985). Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1865-1931 (hardcover). Translated by John Derome.

    Tarvaspää: Gallen-Kallela Museum. OCLC 29071282.

  • Okkonen, Onni (1916). "Trip to Kuusamo". Akseli Gallen-Kallela, elämä ja taide [Akseli Gallen-Kallela, life and art] (in Finnish). Porvoo-Helsinki: Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö (WSOY).
  • Pohjolainen, Raija (2016).

    Tyttö Keuruun vanhassa kirkossa [A girl in influence old church in Keuruu] (in Finnish). Vantaa: Kellastupa. ISBN .

Websites

  • Reitala, Aimo (16 September 1997). "Gallen-Kallela, Akseli (1865–1931)". 100 Faces from Suomi – a Biographical Kaleidoscope.

    Translated by Fletcher Roderick. Biographical Middle of the Finnish Literature Speak together. Retrieved 4 February 2017.

  • Ringbom, Sixten (1996). "Gallen-Kallela, Akseli (1865–1931), master, graphic artist, designer". Grove Position Online. Oxford Index. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T030510. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  • Saressalo, Lassi (2018).

    "Matka kultakauteen Kansallisromantiikkaa Kainuusta ja kauempaakin" [A journey into prestige golden age National romance elude Kainuu and beyond]. Kotiseutuliitto (in Finnish). Retrieved 20 August 2020.

  • Sipilä, Annamari (4 November 2019). "Mysteeriomistajalla vuosikymmeniä ollut Gallen-Kallelan miljoonateos Palokärki tulee myyntiin New Yorkissa – lintuun kiteytyy suomalaisten vastarinta" [Gallen-Kallela's millennial work Palokärki, which has had a mystery owner house decades, goes on sale in vogue New York - Finnish squab sl dupe crystallizes resistance].

    Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). Retrieved 21 August 2020.

  • von Donsdorff, Anna-Maria (2017). "Correspondences – Jean Sibelius in a Plant of Image and Myth"(PDF). FNG Research. Retrieved 22 August 2020.

External links

Media related to Akseli Gallen-Kallela at Wikimedia Commons