Akseli Gallen-Kallela: The Spirit of Finland

by David Jackson (Editor), Janne Gallen-Kallela-Sirén (Collaborator), Akseli Gallen-Kallela (Illustrator)

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.

Genres: Art

264 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2007

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Reviews

[Pamela · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wonderful, based on an inspiring exhibition in the Groninger Museum. Great to read this book and marvel at the pictures, especially after a 3-week trip to Finland in 2007, in which I got the chance to visit one of Akseli Gallen-Kallela's atriums and meet his granddaughter Ivy Gallen-Kallela.