num_pages: 264
description: 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.
language: English
title: Akseli Gallen-Kallela: The Spirit of Finland
titlecomplete: Akseli Gallen-Kallela: The Spirit of Finland
genres: Art
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Groninger Museum & NAI Publishers