Finnish painters:Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

• Akseli Gallen-Kallela was born 26th of April in 1865

• He was a Finnish painter whose best known illustrations were of the Kalevala, our national epic

• His work was considered very important for the finnish national identity

A boy and a crow

A boy and a crow• A boy and a crow is Akseli Gallen-Kallela's painting from 1884. • The work is a 80x72 cm large oil painting on canvas and it is one of

the Golden Age of Finnish art masterpieces.• Son and the crow is the most important Gallen-Kallela's youthful

work, which was characterized by a realistic expression.• Work targeting the disadvantaged in society• The work was the artist's last Tyrvää summer in 1884. He spent time

Sipi house yard, where the painting was born. • The work is owned by the Finnish state, and it is Ateneum Antell

collections.

Finnish first class students sketch of a boy and crow

The little artists on their creative work

A boy and the crow by finnish first class students

The Fighting Capercaillies

Ferdinand von Wright

Ferdinand von Wright (March 19, 1822 — July 31, 1906) was aFinnish painter. He is known especially for his paintings of birds andlandscapes, but was also a portrait painter.Von Wright's parents, Henrik Magnus von Wright and Maria ElisabetTuderus, owned the Haminalahti manor in Kuopio. His brothersMagnus and Wilhelm were also painters.In 1838, Ferdinand traveled to Sweden to assist his brother Wilhelmin his illustration work, and worked as his brother's substitute as anillustrator at the Royal Swedish Academy of Art. During 1842 hestudied for some time at the academy, and then returned to Finland in1844. He lived a secluded but productive life in a cottage he built nearhis family's home. In 1885, he was granted an artist's pension by thegovernment. Despite suffering paralysis beginning in 1884, Ferdinandcontinued to produce artistic works until his death. It was during thistime that he produced his work The Fighting Capercaillies, one ofFinland's most famous paintings.

The Fighting Capercaillies

HELGE JUHANI PALMU

• was born 8.7.1944 in Turku

• Juhani Palmu is a Finnish artist whose private lives and activities are occasionally  given rise to debate.

•His work will focus mostly barns and landscapes, orshamanistic symbols, combined with the cave paintings of human figures in style. 

HUGO SIMBERG

• 24 June 1873 - 12 July 1917 • a Finnish symbolist painter and graphic artist

Simberg's famous painting THE WOUNDED ANGEL is somewhat gloomy, its titular character appearing in the shape of a winged angel with a bandaged head, borne on a stretcher by two somberly dressed boys, one of whom looks toward the viewer with a serious expression.

The painting is the best known of the artist's works and is especially famous in Finland.

Simberg painted The wounded angel at Tampere Cathedral as the wallpainting years 1905-1906.

Polish works