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Alvar Aalto

(Finland, 1898-1976)
Estimate
6 000 - 8 000 EUR
67 100 - 89 500 SEK
6 090 - 8 120 USD
Hammer price
3 600 EUR
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Alvar Aalto
(Finland, 1898-1976)

A WAR MEMORIAL OF SUOMUSSALMI.

Bronze. Length ca 77 cm, wooden base, height 8 cm.

More information

The sculpture is a miniature of the war monument erected in Suomussalmi in northern Finland on August 30, 1959. It commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the battle of Suomussalmi between the Finnish and Russian forces during the Winter War resulting in Finnish victory. The monument was designed by Alvar Aalto and sculpted by Heikki Häiväoja. Häiväoja is an artist who belonged to the artists’ group Maaliskuulaiset during the 1960s, and became renowned for his nature-inspired bronze sculptures. According to Häiväoja a total of five miniatures of the monument were created – two of which the sculptor himself kept, and the remaining three kept by Alvar Aalto’s architecture studio.

Designer

Alvar Aalto is one of Finland's most prominent architects and designers and one of Scandinavia's biggest proponents of modern architecture and design. Several of the furniture and vases he designed are today considered iconic design classics, including the Savoy vases, the Beehive lamp, and Armchair, model '31'.Alvar Aalto is the most internationally famous Finnish architect and designer. Aalto was a great ambassador for Finnish design at a time when the Finnish people were thinking about how to present themselves to the rest of the world. He gave equal weight to form and function, and was inspired by the Finnish landscape. Aalto is one of the most important representatives of modern architecture and has created its own architecture direction, whose aesthetic effect is based on careful planning of the buildings in relation to the environment, a human dimension and good sense of material.

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