Akseli Gallen-Kallela
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Akseli Gallen-Kallela was a Finnish painter and a leading figure of Finnish romantic nationalism around the turn of the 20th century. He is considered a pioneer of a distinctly Finnish national art, a
Akseli Gallen Kallela
Moonlit Landscape, 1881, his first oil painting
Boy and a Crow, 1884 (fi)
Decaying Sander, 1884 (fi)
The Defense of the Sampo
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The Defense of the Sampo is a tempera-on-canvas Romantic national painting created in 1896 by Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela. The painting illustrates a passage from the Kalevala, the Finnish n
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
…towards symbolism and a stylised national-romantic idiom. He is best known for his depictions of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, including The Defense of the Sampo, Lemminkäinen's Mother and the Aino Triptych, as well as for his illustrations to the Kalevala and to Aleksis Kivi's novel Seven Brothers. He was also…
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Sketch of the fresco made by Gallen-Kallela.