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Hugo Simberg (1873-1917)  

Aliases: Hugo Gerhard Simberg
Professions: Figure painter; Painter; Genre Painter; Portrait painter; Sculptor; Landscape painter

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Biography

(b Hamina, 24 June 1873; d Ähtäri, 12 July 1917). Finnish painter and printmaker. He first studied at the Finnish Fine Arts Association in Helsinki. His natural inclination towards mysticism led him to seek the instruction of Akseli Gallen-Kallela, with whom he studied in Ruovesi intermittently between 1895 and 1897. Gallen-Kallela’s influence, in particular his Symbolist synthesis of the National Romantic style, is evident in Simberg’s early works, such as Frost and Autumn (both 1895; ... (view more)

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