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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
Kaarina Maununtytär, 1885
27 × 20.5 cm
Finnish National Gallery
C24-448127
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Head of a Girl, Little Anna, 1897
oil paint
25 × 32 cm
Finnish National Gallery
C24-448175
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Early Spring, 1883
oil paint
23.5 × 27.5 cm
Finnish National Gallery
C24-447324
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Prof. E. R. Neovius Portrait, 1898
tempera
40.5 × 33.5 cm
Finnish National Gallery
C24-446799
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Cow and Boy, 1885
oil paint
25.5 × 40 cm
Finnish National Gallery
C24-446840
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
The Departure of Väinämöinen, 1894
paper
75 × 53 cm
Finnish National Gallery
C24-446263
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
First Lesson, 1889
oil paint
117 × 98 cm
Finnish National Gallery
C24-446196
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Turku Cathedral, 1884
oil paint
35 × 27 cm
Finnish National Gallery
C24-446052
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
The Great Black Woodpecker, 1893
paper
145 × 90 cm
Finnish National Gallery
C24-446041
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Wild Angelica, 1889
oil paint
103 × 56 cm
Finnish National Gallery
C24-446042
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Decaying Sander, 1884
oil paint
44.5 × 37 cm
Finnish National Gallery
C24-445893
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Parisian backyard, 1884
oil paint
28 × 23 cm
Finnish National Gallery
C24-445897
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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