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1865 Pori, Finland - 1931. Known for: Nude figure, landscape and genre painting-Finnish culture.
A ground-breaking artist, who made a made a huge contribution to defining the Finnish artistic national consciousness, Akseli Gallen-Kallela's career nevertheless began with a conventional training... Read full biography
A ground-breaking artist, who made a made a huge contribution to defining the Finnish artistic national consciousness, Akseli Gallen-Kallela's career nevertheless began with a conventional training at the Académie Julian in Paris. His teachers, William Bouguereau and, later, Fernand Cormon, were... Read full biography
A ground-breaking artist, who made a made a huge contribution to defining the Finnish artistic national consciousness, Akseli Gallen-Kallela's career nevertheless began with a conventional training at the Académie Julian in Paris. His teachers, William Bouguereau and, later, Fernand Cormon, were traditional proponents of a highly polished style of Academic art that was a world removed from the symbolist, avant-garde paintings which have come to define the artist. Gallen-Kallela's art was based... Read full biography
A ground-breaking artist, who made a made a huge contribution to defining the Finnish artistic national consciousness, Akseli Gallen-Kallela's career nevertheless began with a conventional training at the Académie Julian in Paris. His teachers, William Bouguereau and, later, Fernand Cormon, were traditional proponents of a highly polished style of Academic art that was a world removed from the symbolist, avant-garde paintings which have come to define the artist. Gallen-Kallela's art was based on a vision of Finland that was inspired by the Kalevala, an epic poem rooted in mythology and oral folklore, and which inspired a number of other artists seeking to establish a Finnish national identity on the country's road to complete autonomy... Read full biography
A ground-breaking artist, who made a made a huge contribution to defining the Finnish artistic national consciousness, Akseli Gallen-Kallela's career nevertheless began with a conventional training at the Académie Julian in Paris. His teachers, William Bouguereau and, later, Fernand Cormon, were traditional proponents of a highly polished style of Academic art that was a world removed from the symbolist, avant-garde paintings which have come to define the artist. Gallen-Kallela's art was based on a vision of Finland that was inspired by the Kalevala, an epic poem rooted in mythology and oral folklore, and which inspired a number of other artists seeking to establish a Finnish national identity on the country's road to complete autonomy from Russia. His first paintings on the subject, executed in the early 1890s, were characterized by an incongruous juxtapositio... Read full biography
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