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Akseli Gallen-Kallela

1865 - 1931

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Akseli Gallen-Kallela (26 April 1865 – 7 March 1931) was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. His work is considered a very important aspect of the Finnish national identity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Akseli Gallen-Kallela has received more than 368,002 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Akseli Gallen-Kallela is the 299th most popular painter (up from 327th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Finland (up from 29th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Finnish Painter.

Akseli Gallen-Kallela is most famous for his paintings of the Finnish national epic, Kalevala.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Akseli Gallen-Kallela ranks 299 out of 1,421Before him are Anselm Kiefer, Paul Delvaux, Louis Wain, Frans Snyders, Marie Bashkirtseff, and Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād. After him are Salaì, François Gérard, Thomas Couture, Masolino da Panicale, Viktor Vasnetsov, and Horace Vernet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Akseli Gallen-Kallela ranks 22Before him are Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Philipp Scheidemann, Andranik, Alfred Hugenberg, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, and Félix Vallotton. After him are Arthur Harden, Amélie of Orléans, Benjamin Guggenheim, Jacques Hadamard, John Mott, and L'Inconnue de la Seine. Among people deceased in 1931, Akseli Gallen-Kallela ranks 23Before him are F. W. Murnau, Bhagat Singh, Hermann Müller, Peter Kürten, Eugène Ysaÿe, and Carin Göring. After him are Armand Fallières, Martinus Beijerinck, Nathan Söderblom, André Michelin, Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta, and Kitasato Shibasaburō.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Akseli Gallen-Kallela ranks 27 out of 642Before him are Helene Schjerfbeck (1862), Pehr Evind Svinhufvud (1861), Aki Kaurismäki (1957), Johan Gadolin (1760), Otto Wille Kuusinen (1881), and Mikael Agricola (1510). After him are Vissarion Belinsky (1811), Mika Häkkinen (1968), Linus Torvalds (1969), Mauno Koivisto (1923), Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804), and Kyösti Kallio (1873).

Among PAINTERS In Finland

Among painters born in Finland, Akseli Gallen-Kallela ranks 2Before him are Helene Schjerfbeck (1862). After him are Tom of Finland (1920), Albert Edelfelt (1854), Hugo Simberg (1873), Elin Danielson-Gambogi (1861), Magnus Enckell (1870), Pekka Halonen (1865), Helena Westermarck (1857), Amélie Lundahl (1850), and Vilho Lampi (1898).