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Akseli Gallen-Kallela: Lemminkäinen's Mother This painting derives from the Kalevala tale of Lemminkäinen's mother who saves her son from death, and is the artist's own homage to motherly love. The model was Gallen-Kallela's own mother: "An artist's work is often hard. Painting that canvas, I deliberatively tried to make mother take on an expression of pain by talking about things so sombre and gloomy that even she, with her strong nerves, finally burst into tears." |    
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