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Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Index Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Akseli Gallen-Kallela (26 April 1865 – 7 March 1931) was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 87 relations: Académie Julian, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Adolf von Becker, Aide-de-camp, Aino (mythology), Albert Edelfelt, August Strindberg, Berlin, Bonnier Group, Carl Dørnberger, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Chicago, Copenhagen, Coregonus albula, Diphtheria, East Karelia, Edvard Munch, Elin Danielson-Gambogi, En saga, Epic poetry, Eurasian lynx, Exposition Universelle (1900), Expressionism, Finland, Finnicization, Finnish art, Finnish Civil War, Florence, Fresco, Fritz Arthur Jusélius, Gallen-Kallela Museum, Golden Age of Finnish Art, Grand Duchy of Finland, Graphic arts, Groninger Museum, Helsinki, House of Romanov, Jean Sibelius, Jorma Gallen-Kallela, Joukahainen, Jusélius Mausoleum, Kalevala, Kansallis-Osake-Pankki, Kanteletar, Kenya, Keuruu, Kikuyu people, Kullervo, Kullervo Sets Off for War, Lake Keitele, ... Expand index (37 more) »

  2. 20th-century Finnish male artists
  3. Finnish expatriates in France
  4. Finnish expatriates in Kenya
  5. Heraldists from the Russian Empire

Académie Julian

The was a private art school for painting and sculpture founded in Paris, France, in 1867 by French painter and teacher Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907) that was active from 1868 through 1968.

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Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki

The Academy of Fine Arts (Kuvataideakatemia; Bildkonstakademin) in Helsinki, Finland is part of the University of the Arts Helsinki and provides the highest university-level theoretical and practical training in the country in fine arts.

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Adolf von Becker

Adolf von Becker (14 August 1831 – 23 August 1909) was a Finnish genre painter and art professor of German descent.

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Aide-de-camp

An aide-de-camp (French expression meaning literally "helper in the military camp") is a personal assistant or secretary to a person of high rank, usually a senior military, police or government officer, or to a member of a royal family or a head of state.

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Aino (mythology)

Aino is a figure in the Finnish national epic Kalevala.

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Albert Edelfelt

Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt (21 July 1854 – 18 August 1905) was a Finnish painter noted for his naturalistic style and Realist approach to art. Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Albert Edelfelt are Burials at Hietaniemi Cemetery and Swedish-speaking Finns.

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August Strindberg

Johan August Strindberg (22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Bonnier Group

Bonnier AB, also the Bonnier Group, is a privately held Swedish media group of 175 companies operating in 15 countries.

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Carl Dørnberger

''Woman in Montmartre'' (1891) Carl Johannes Andreas Adam Dørnberger (23 September 1864 - 8 July 1940) was a Norwegian painter.

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Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (4 June 1867 – 27 January 1951) was a Finnish military commander, aristocrat, and statesman. Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim are Burials at Hietaniemi Cemetery, people from Turku and Pori Province (Grand Duchy of Finland), people of the Finnish Civil War (White side) and Swedish-speaking Finns.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Copenhagen

Copenhagen (København) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the urban area.

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Coregonus albula

Coregonus albula, known as the vendace or as the European cisco, is a species of freshwater whitefish in the family Salmonidae.

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Diphtheria

Diphtheria is an infection caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae.

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East Karelia

East Karelia (Itä-Karjala, Idä-Karjala), also rendered as Eastern Karelia or Russian Karelia, is a name for the part of Karelia that since the Treaty of Stolbovo in 1617 has remained Eastern Orthodox and a part of Russia.

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Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter.

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Elin Danielson-Gambogi

Elin Kleopatra Danielson-Gambogi (3 September 1861 – 31 December 1919) was a Finnish painter, best known for her realist works and portraits. Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Elin Danielson-Gambogi are 20th-century Finnish painters.

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En saga

En saga (in Finnish: Satu; occasionally translated to English as, variously, A Fairy Tale, A Saga, or A Legend), Op. 9, is a single-movement tone poem for orchestra written from 1891 to 1892 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.

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Epic poetry

An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants.

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Eurasian lynx

The Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) is one of the four extant species within the medium-sized wild cat genus Lynx.

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Exposition Universelle (1900)

The Exposition Universelle of 1900, better known in English as the 1900 Paris Exposition, was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 14 April to 12 November 1900, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next.

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Expressionism

Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century.

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Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

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Finnicization

Finnicization (also finnicisation, fennicization, fennicisation) is the changing of one's personal names from other languages (usually Swedish) into Finnish.

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Finnish art

Finnish art started to form its individual characteristics in the 19th century, when romantic nationalism began to rise in the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland.

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Finnish Civil War

The Finnish Civil War was a civil war in Finland in 1918 fought for the leadership and control of the country between White Finland and the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic (Red Finland) during the country's transition from a grand duchy ruled by the Russian Empire to a fully independent state.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Fresco

Fresco (or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster.

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Fritz Arthur Jusélius

Fritz Arthur Jusélius (13 June 1855 Pori – 8 February 1930) was a Finnish industrialist and a member of parliament. Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Fritz Arthur Jusélius are people from Pori.

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Gallen-Kallela Museum

The Gallen-Kallela Museum, located in Tarvaspää, Espoo, Finland, and built between 1911 and 1913 was a home and studio for Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela.

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Golden Age of Finnish Art

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.

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Grand Duchy of Finland

The Grand Duchy of Finland, officially and also translated as the Grand Principality of Finland, was the predecessor state of modern Finland.

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Graphic arts

A category of fine art, graphic art covers a broad range of visual artistic expression, typically two-dimensional, i.e. produced on a flat surface.

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Groninger Museum

The Groninger Museum is an art museum in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands.

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Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital and most populous city in Finland.

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House of Romanov

The House of Romanov (also transliterated as Romanoff; Romanovy) was the reigning imperial house of Russia from 1613 to 1917.

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Jean Sibelius

Jean Sibelius (born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; 8 December 186520 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early modern periods. Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Jean Sibelius are Swedish-speaking Finns.

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Jorma Gallen-Kallela

Jorma Gallen-Kallela (né Gallén) (22 November 1898 – 1 December 1939) was a Finnish artist. Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Jorma Gallen-Kallela are 20th-century Finnish painters and people of the Finnish Civil War (White side).

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Joukahainen

Joukahainen is a character in the Kalevala, the Finnish epic poem.

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Jusélius Mausoleum

Jusélius Mausoleum (Juséliuksen mausoleumi) is one of the most famous sights in Pori, Finland, at the Käppärä Cemetery (est. 1884).

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Kalevala

The Kalevala is a 19th-century compilation of epic poetry, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology, telling an epic story about the Creation of the Earth, describing the controversies and retaliatory voyages between the peoples of the land of Kalevala called Väinölä and the land of Pohjola and their various protagonists and antagonists, as well as the construction and robbery of the epic mythical wealth-making machine Sampo.

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Kansallis-Osake-Pankki

Kansallis-Osake-Pankki (KOP) was a Finnish commercial bank operating from 1889 to 1995.

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Kanteletar

Kanteletar is a collection of Finnish folk poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.

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Keuruu

Keuruu (Keuru) is a town and municipality of Finland.

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Kikuyu people

The Kikuyu (also Agĩkũyũ/Gĩkũyũ) are a Bantu ethnic group native to East Africa Central Kenya.

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Kullervo

Kullervo is an ill-fated character in the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic compiled by Elias Lönnrot.

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Kullervo Sets Off for War

Kullervo Sets Off for War (Kullervon sotaanlähtö) is a painting by Akseli Gallen-Kallela from the year 1901.

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Lake Keitele

Keitele is a large lake located in Central Finland.

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Lake Ruovesi

Lake Ruovesi is a medium-sized lake in Finland.

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Lemminkäinen

Lemminkäinen or Lemminki is a prominent figure in Finnish mythology.

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Lemminkäinen's Mother

Lemminkäinen's Mother (Lemminkäisen äiti) is an 1897 Romantic nationalist painting by Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Maria Raunio

Maria Raunio (26 May 1872 – 3 September 1911) was a Finnish educator and politician. Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Maria Raunio are Finnish expatriates in the United States.

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Nairobi

Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya.

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National Museum of Finland

The National Museum of Finland (Suomen kansallismuseo, Finlands Nationalmuseum) is a museum in Helsinki presenting Finnish history from the Stone Age to the present day, through objects and cultural history.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Old Student House, Helsinki

The Old Student House (Vanha ylioppilastalo, colloquially called Vanha, "the old one"; Gamla studenthuset) is the former student house of the Student Union of the University of Helsinki, located in central Helsinki, Finland, near the crossing of Aleksanterinkatu and Mannerheimintie.

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Painting

Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support").

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Panozero

Panozero (Панозеро; Puanajärvi) is a rural locality (a settlement) in Kemsky District of the Republic of Karelia, located along the Kem River.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Parliament of Finland

The Parliament of Finland is the unicameral and supreme legislature of Finland, founded on 9 May 1906.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Pompeii

Pompeii was an ancient city in what is now the comune (municipality) of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy.

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Pori

Pori (Björneborg; Arctopolis) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Satakunta.

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Realism (arts)

Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative and supernatural elements.

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Romantic nationalism

Romantic nationalism (also national romanticism, organic nationalism, identity nationalism) is the form of nationalism in which the state claims its political legitimacy as an organic consequence of the unity of those it governs.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

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Russification of Finland

The policy of Russification of Finland (lit; translit) was a governmental policy of the Russian Empire aimed at limiting the special status of the Grand Duchy of Finland and possibly the termination of its political autonomy and cultural uniqueness in 1899–1905 and in 1908–1917, fully integrating Finland to the Russian Empire.

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Ryijy

Ryijy is a woven Finnish long-tufted tapestry or knotted-pile carpet hanging.

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Sahara

The Sahara is a desert spanning across North Africa.

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Sampo

In Finnish mythology, the Sampo is a magical device or object described in many different ways that was constructed by the blacksmith Ilmarinen and that brought riches and good fortune to its holder, akin to the horn of plenty (cornucopia) of Greek mythology.

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Sander (fish)

Sander (formerly known as Stizostedion) is a genus of predatory ray-finned fish in the family Percidae, which also includes the perches, ruffes, and darters.

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Stained glass

Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Swedish-speaking population of Finland

The Swedish-speaking population of Finland (whose members are called by many names—see below; finlandssvenskar; suomenruotsalaiset) is a linguistic minority in Finland.

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Symbolism (arts)

Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism.

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Tana River (Kenya)

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Taos art colony

The Taos art colony was an art colony founded in Taos, New Mexico, by artists attracted by the culture of the Taos Pueblo and northern New Mexico.

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Taos, New Mexico

Taos is a town in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

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Tuonela

TuonelaOinas, Felix J., and Juha Pentikäinen.

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Tyrvää

Tyrvää (Tyrvis) was a municipality in the Satakunta region, Turku and Pori Province, Finland.

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Valvoja

Valvoja (Finnish: Observer) was a Finnish language literary and cultural magazine that existed between 1880 and 1922.

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Väinämöinen

Väinämöinen is a demigod, hero and the central character in Finnish folklore and the main character in the national epic Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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See also

20th-century Finnish male artists

Finnish expatriates in France

Finnish expatriates in Kenya

Heraldists from the Russian Empire

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akseli_Gallen-Kallela

Also known as Akseli Gallen Kallela, Akseli Valdemar Gallen-Kallela, Axel Gallén.

, Lake Ruovesi, Lemminkäinen, Lemminkäinen's Mother, London, Maria Raunio, Nairobi, National Museum of Finland, Norway, Old Student House, Helsinki, Painting, Panozero, Paris, Parliament of Finland, Pneumonia, Pompeii, Pori, Realism (arts), Romantic nationalism, Romanticism, Russification of Finland, Ryijy, Sahara, Sampo, Sander (fish), Stained glass, Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish-speaking population of Finland, Symbolism (arts), Tana River (Kenya), Taos art colony, Taos, New Mexico, Tuonela, Tyrvää, Valvoja, Väinämöinen, World War I.