Reidar Sarestoniemi - Artist Info

About Reidar Sarestoniemi

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Reidar Saristoniemi
  • Biography from Blomqvist

    Reidar Särestöniemi was a Finnish visual artist born in the town of Kittilä in Kittilä. He studied at the Helsinki Academy of Fine Art and at the Ilja Repin Institute in Leningrad. The starting point of Särestöniemi's art is the nature of Lapland and the Lapponian myths and fotellings. The motives are often ants and mountains, rhinos, lynx and reindeer. The colors are an important part of Särstöniemi's work, and he took the impression of European modernism, Russian art and the past cave paintings. Reidar lived from 1925 to 1981.

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