The Gallen-Kallela Museum

  • Web: www.gallen-kallela.fi
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  • Contact: Salla Tiainen, head of museum education and public programmes, salla.tiainen@gallen-kallela.fi
  • Description: Images taken or collected by Akseli Gallen-Kallela.

Coffee at Tarvaspää

People in Linudd garden

Ruovesi

The old wooden church in Ruovesi, Finland

Tallinna

Right-hand half of a stereoscopic photograph depicting a scene in the harbour of Tallinn, Estonia

Kalela

Picture of Akseli Gallen-Kallela's Ad Astra in his remote atelier, Kalela.

Landscapes and sceneries

The window view from Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s studio, nicknamed “the Cabin”, in Erottaja 2, Helsinki.

Akseli's photo workshop

Building of the tower of Tarvaspää in 1912.

Wife and Children

Studio portrait of Mary, Jorma and Kirsti Gallén, Helsinki, 1903.

The Frescoes of the National Museum

Akseli Gallen-Kallela painting his cupola fresco The Forging of the Sampo in the National Museum of Finland, 1928.

In Africa

Akseli and Jorma Gallen-Kallela coming from a gazelle hunting trip in Africa, 1909; print 2 of the picture.

In America

Native American Jerry on a horse and Akseli Gallen-Kallela in Taos, New Mexico, ca.1925.

Suomenlinna 1918

A horse and a buggy in front of the Church at Suomenlinna fortress.

Porvoo

Boulders from cliffs along with timber cast-off in Porvoo, Finland

Malmi

Snow-covered landscape in the Malmi of Helsinki where Akseli Gallen-Kallela lived with his wife Mary during the winter of 1891

Suolahti

View from Kirppuvuori, Suolahti to northeast

Stereographs

A big tree on the side of the road that leads to Madji Msuri in December 1909.

Family

Anna Slöör, Mary Gallen-Kallela´s sister, wearing a hat.

Friends and Acquaintances

Countess Gisela Hess-Diller and baroness Marion Franchetti (with a hat) swimming in Vienna, 1904.

Painting

Axel Gallén painting The Aino Myth in Helsinki, ca.1890; print 2 of the photograph 1.

Mugshots

Gustaf Ferdinand Alén, arrested in Pori and accused of murder, 1893.

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Child standing in the doorway of a seashore house.

Sammatti

View from Paikkari croft over the Valkjärvi lake in Sammatti, Finland

Pariisi

Picture of budding branches by Alfred von Berlepsch, friend of Akseli and Mary Gallen-Kallela, during his visit to Paris in April, 1909

Linudd

View of Villa Linudd

Kovalan talo, Korpilahti

Man smoking his pipe while sitting on the steps to a traditional timber barn

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

Portrait of Carl Gustaf Mannerheim

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Portrait of Axel Gallén in Paris, 1889; print 1 of the photograph.

Tarvaspää

Akseli Gallen-Kallela at Tarvaspää´s tower working on a dragon-shaped gargoyle, 1927; photograph 1.

Posing

Axel Gallén posing as a robber of the Sampo ca.1905; photograph 1.

pictures not known when taken

Photograph of a painting portraying Carin Andrsdotter Gallén, Akseli Gallen-Kallela´s grand-grandfather´s mother and the wife of Johan Jacobson Gallén.