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  • Akseli Gallen-Kallela
    Apr 26, 1865 - Mar 7, 1931
  • Aino Myth, Triptych 2 - Akseli Gallen-Kallela was a Swedish-speaking Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. His work was considered very important for the Finnish national identity. His was a leading figure in modern Finnish painting and the decorative arts, who studied painting in Helsinki and Paris. By the mid-1890s hebegan to incorporate Symbolist motifs in his work. His landscape paintings of about 1900 show the influence of both Gauguin and Monet
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  • 1891
    Oil on canvas
    60.6 x 60.6 in.

    Depicting a scene from Kalevala, a Finnish epic poem. Aino was Joukahainen's sister who was promised to the old and wise Vainamoinen in marriage after Joukahainen lost a magic singing match against V?in?m?inen. Aino instead decides to drown herself.

    The three pictures tell the story: the left panel one is about the first encounter of Vainamoinen and Aino in the forest, the right panel depicts mournful Aino weeping on the shore and listening to the call of the maids of Vellamo who are playing in the water. Aino has made her decision to choose death rather than her wizened suitor. The middle panel depicts the end of the story. Vainamoinen goes to fish for Aino in the lake that she entered. He catches a fish which he thinks to be a salmon and tries to cut her up with a knife, but the fish slips away from his hands and springs back into the water. Then the fish changes into Aino who proceeds to mock the old man, that he held her in his hand but couldn't keep her. After that she vanishes for ever.

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Akseli Gallen-KallelaAkseli Gallen-Kallela was born Axél Waldemar Gallén in Pori, Finland. He become known as one of the leading practitioners of the international Art Nouveau movement.

The Art Nouveau movement flourished from 1890 to 1914, at which time Gallen-Kallela had already established his position as the leading Finnish national painter. He invented an entirely new formulised language, which brought to his famous paintings of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, a dynamic and unnatural intensity.

A larger than life character, Gallen-Kallela was the central figure in Karelianism in the 1890s. He studied in Paris during the 1880s and was inspired by his life there and by his experience of Berlin Symbolism in the mid 1890s to create his highly individual mature style, in which a powerful vision was expressed in a technique of strong lines and colours and flattened, stylised images.

Akseli Gallen-Kallela died in 1931.

In 1961, his studio and house at Tarvaspää was opened as the Gallen-Kallela Museum which houses some of his works and research facilities on Gallen-Kallela. I have been there and it is well worth the trip: as atmospheric as any studio I have visited and a place where you can just feel the ghost of Gallen-Kallela around you.