Akseli Gallen‐Kallela

Japanese: ガレン･カレラ（英語表記）Akseli Gallen‐Kallela

1865‐1931
A representative Finnish nationalist romanticist painter. His real name was Axel Gallén. He was born in Pori. He studied in Helsinki and Paris, and initially painted the lives of ordinary people in a realistic style. In the late 1880s, as the momentum for national independence grew, he turned his attention to the national epic poem, the Kalevala, and thereafter used it as the subject of his representative works, including the frescoes at the 1900 Paris World's Fair. In the 1890s, he came into contact with the Symbolists, and moved towards the flat, decorative style of Synthetism, and his paintings began to take on a mystical quality.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1865‐1931
フィンランドの民族主義的ロマン主義の代表的画家。本名アクセル･ガレンAxel Gallén。ポリ生れ。ヘルシンキ，パリに学び，当初は民衆生活を写実的に描く。1880年代末に民族独立気運の高まる中で民族叙事詩《カレワラ》に注目し，以後これを，1900年パリ万国博覧会のフレスコ画をはじめ代表作の題材とする。1890年代に象徴派(象徴主義)と接触し平面的･装飾的なサンテティスム(総合主義)の様式に移行，画面は神秘性を帯び始める。

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