Akseli Gallen-KallelaTelling the mystic tales of Finland

Akseli Gallen-Kallela was a Finnish artist born on April 26, 1865. Gallen-Kallela contributed to the Symbolist movement, worked in France, and died on March 7, 1931. Get notified when Akseli Gallen-Kallela's biography is complete:

Ferdinand Hodler

Lover of beauty, pursued by the specter of death

1853-1918

William Blake

Art is life, science is death

1757-1827

Odilon Redon

The faces we see in our dreams

1840-1916

1801 2000

The man who rewrote his life

Adolf Wölfli

Too many prostitutes and too much absinth

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Provocative model becomes a transgressive artist

Suzanne Valadon

Grabbing history painting by the horns

Elena Brockmann

Take custom lessons, Test your knowledge, Know your history.

Akseli Gallen-KallelaTelling the mystic tales of Finland

Boy with a Crow

Skaters near the Shore of Kalela

Kullervo cursing

Shepherd boy from Paanajärvi