Akseli Gallen-Kallela
"SNOW ON THE CLIFFS/KALELA."
Sign. Kalela 1901. Oil on canvas 81x55 cm.
Saleroom notice
Provenance.
Provenance
Aino Ackté.
Exhibitions
Tampere Art Museum 1984, 2006. Ateneum, 1996, nr 211, 2011-2012. Turku Art Museum 1996. Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1998. Groninger Museum, Holland 2007. Halosenniemi, 2008. Musée D'Orsay, Paris 2012. Museum Kunst Palast, Dûsseldorf 2012.
Literature
Akseli Gallen-Kallela, exhibition publication, Ateneum 1996, no 211. Akseli Gallen-Kallela, European Master, Helsinki Art Museum, nr 51, illustrated on the cover. Akseli Gallen-Kallela, exhibition publication 2012, Helsinki Art Museum, Paris Musée d'Orsay, Düsseldorf Museum Kunstpalast, no 35.
More information
Janne Gallen-Kallela-Sirén wrote in hes letter 25.10. 2010: "... the painting you possess, snow landscape (Snow On the Cliffs/Kalela) by Gallen-Kallela is one of the most notable of his winter motifs...".
Designer
Akseli Gallen-Kallela is counted among Finland's most famous artists, born in 1865 in Pori. He studied at the Drawing School of the Finnish Art Society in Helsinki and later at the Académie Julian in Paris. He worked across various art forms such as painting, graphics, illustrations, textiles, architecture, and even designed military uniforms. Akseli Gallen-Kallela's first significant work, 'Old Woman with a Cat,' challenged the ideals of its time and paved the way for realism in Finnish painting.
Gallen-Kallela was primarily known for his paintings and illustrations for the Finnish national epic, 'Kalevala.' In 1900, he executed dome paintings with Kalevala motifs for the Finnish pavilion at the World Exhibition in Paris. His visual language is often described as naturalistic, symbolic, and expressionistic
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