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Artist in the Global Art Registry
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
1865–1931 · Finnish
- Born
- 1865 · Pori
- Died
- 1931 · Stockholm
348 works in the Collect24 Registry
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Akseli Gallen-Kallela was a Finnish painter and a leading figure of Finnish romantic nationalism. He is considered a pioneer of distinctly Finnish national art, and his work is important for Finnish national identity.
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Akseli Gallen-Kallela (born Axel Waldemar Gallén; 26 April 1865 – 7 March 1931) was a Finnish painter and a leading figure of Finnish romantic nationalism around the turn of the 20th century. He is considered a pioneer of a distinctly Finnish national art, and his work is regarded as a very important aspect of Finnish national identity. Gallen-Kallela began his career as a realist painter influenced by Jules Bastien-Lepage before turning, in the 1890s, towards symbolism and a stylised national-romantic idiom. He is best known for his depictions of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, including The Defense of the Sampo, Lemminkäinen's Mother and the Aino Triptych, as well as for his illustrations to the Kalevala and to Aleksis Kivi's novel Seven Brothers. He was also active as a graphic artist, designer and fresco painter, executing monumental works for the Finnish pavilion at the Paris World Fair of 1900 and the Jusélius Mausoleum in Pori. He finnicized his name from Gallén to Gallen-Kallela in 1907.
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Registered works
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Featured works
Selected registered works by Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Selected from 348 works by Akseli Gallen-Kallela in the Collect24 Registry.
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Sand Bank, 1882
paper
24 × 40 cm
Finnish National Gallery
C24-447984
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Ilmarinen ploughing the Viper-field, Sketch for the cupola frescos of the Finnish Pavilion in Paris, 1899
145 × 152 cm
Finnish National Gallery
C24-447989
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Milling by Hand, 1886
oil paint
33 × 24 cm
Finnish National Gallery
C24-447986
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Portrait of Edvard Munch, 1895
oil paint
44.5 × 41.5 cm
Finnish National Gallery
C24-446044
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Conceptio artis, 1894
paper
65 × 47 cm
Finnish National Gallery
C24-446043
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Boats on the Shore, 1884
oil paint
31.5 × 40 cm
Finnish National Gallery
C24-448839
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Snowy Courtyard, 1882
paper
31.5 × 38.5 cm
Finnish National Gallery
C24-447187
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Old Peasant Woman, 1884
oil paint
36 × 29.5 cm
Finnish National Gallery
C24-447191
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Heathendom and Christendom, Sketch for the cupola frescos of the Finnish Pavilion in Paris, 1899
146 × 152 cm
Finnish National Gallery
C24-448838
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
View from Fredrikinkatu, 1883
paper
26 × 28.5 cm
Finnish National Gallery
C24-448635
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Light behind the Clouds, 1899
oil paint
24 × 25 cm
Finnish National Gallery
C24-448593
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Kekki the Farm-Hand, 1885
oil paint
13.5 × 22 cm
Finnish National Gallery
C24-448496
Museums and collections
Where works by Akseli Gallen-Kallela are registered
- Finnish National Gallery
Helsinki, Finland
342 works
- Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
2 works
- Helsinki City Museum
Helsinki, Finland
2 works
- Nationalmuseum
Sweden
2 works
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