Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931) was a true homo universalis, a Renaissance man best known as a painter, but also an important figure in graphic art and an illustrator, and who designed his own live/work studios, furniture and soft furnishings. Over the course of his fin de siecle career, Gallen-Kallela progressed from realistic naturalism towards symbolism and linearity, progress particularly marked in his painted illustrations of the Scandinavian epic the Kalevala, and in sensitive portraits of subjects including Edvard Munch, Maxim Gorky and his friend Jean Sibelius. This long-overdue survey of his work appears on the 75th anniversary of his death, and on the occasion of the Holland Groninger Museum's full-scale retrospective, the first to bring such a large selection of Gallen-Kallela's work out of Scandinavia--and to the world.
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Gallen-Kallela - art and bio,
This review is from: Akseli Gallen-Kallela: The Spirit of Finland (Paperback)
This book presents Gallen-Kallela's, a native of Finland, diverse artistic works at its best. High quality prints (and there are a lot) of his Kalevala, a book and epic poem of Finnish folklore, inspired and other paintings give an excellent overview of Gallen-Kallela's works. An excellently written bio adds to the high quality of this book (originally published as a museum proceeding). The book also gives some reference to Finland's tumultuous time under Russian rule from the late 1800s to early 1900s, and immediately after gaining independence in 1917.
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an amazing Finnish artist,
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This review is from: Akseli Gallen-Kallela: The Spirit of Finland (Paperback)
We encountered Askeli Gallen-Kallela's paintings at an exhibit of Nordic landscape painting at the Atheneum in Helsinki. He was one of my favorite artists from the exhibit, and I was delighted to find this beautiful full-color collection of his work for such a reasonable price.
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