Golden Age of Finnish Art
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The Golden Age of Finnish Art coincided with the national awakening of Finland, during the era of the Grand Duchy of Finland under the Russian Empire. It is believed to span an era from the late 19th
Väinämöinen fights Louhi over the Sampo. Akseli Gallen-Kallela's The Defense of the Sampo, 1896.
The Finnish Pavilion at the Paris 1900 Expedition by Gesellius, Lindgren, Saarinen (fi)
Problem (Symposium) depicting Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Oskar Merikanto, Robert Kajanus and Jean Sibelius, painted by Gallen-Kallela himself, 1894
Ironesses, Helena Westermarck, 1883
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
Golden Age of Finnish Art
…of Finnish Art" is generally regarded as referring to the realist and romantic nationalist painters of the time. Notable figures of the time include Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Pekka Halonen, Albert Edelfelt, Jean Sibelius, Eino Leino, Helene Schjerfbeck, Emil Wikström, Eero Järnefelt and Eliel Saarinen. Finnish art became…
Akseli Gallen Kallela
Moonlit Landscape, 1881, his first oil painting
Boy and a Crow, 1884 (fi)
Decaying Sander, 1884 (fi)