Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Madonna poster
This is Gallen-Kallela’s personal version of the old Madonna and child theme. In this painting the Virgin Mary is the artist’s wife, Mary, and in the place of the Christ child there is the family’s first-born, Marjatta.
The painting dates from 1891, a year after the couple were married. In the background there are many peasant objects and tools that Gallén brought from his honeymoon trip to Russian Karelia. The dates from the early stages of so-called Karelianism, when Finnish artists journeyed east, seeking, like Gallén, the lands of the Kalevala epic and its rune-singer people.
60 x 40 cm |
8
€
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Ad Astra
Ad Astra (towards the stars) is one of the main works of Gallen-Kallela’s symbolist period. Painted in 1907, it depicts the resurrection of the artist’s own words. The pose is related to the ”position of the saviour of the world on the cross”. It exudes a religious feeling, but in Gallen-Kallela’s case his faith in art: ”Art and religion are very close to each other. I feel that there has been some kind of higher idea, a mystery, that has resided in the souls of me…. for which only art could give form,” said the artist..
40 x 60 cm |
8
€
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Bil-Bol poster
The Bil-Bol poster is regarded as a classic of Finnish poster design.
It was designed by Akseli Gallen-Kallela for Yrjö Weilin's car dealership
in connection with the 1907 Automobile Exposition held in Stockholm. Weilin's
red car was one of the first on the streets of Helsinki and riding with
Weilin, Gallen-Kallela became fascinated with speed. In this poster the
theme of the abducted maiden, familiar from the Kalevala, is transferred
to the modern world and the idiom of contemporary technology.
Facsimile print 70.2 x 92.5 cm |
10 €
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Inspiration
Print copy
Size 24 x 15.5 cm | 5 €
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Lemminkäinen's mother
Print copy
Size 19.8 x 24.2 cm | 5 €
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Death and the Flower
Print copy
Size 14.1 x 9.6 cm | 5 €
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Self-portrait en face
Print copy
Size 23.4 x 18.5 cm | 5 €
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
The Curse of Kullervo
Print copy
Size 29.1 x 17.5 cm | 5 €
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
The Revenge of Joukahainen
Print copy
Size 25.7 x 23.2 cm 5 €