--- type: press_release title: Akseli Gallen-Kallela language: en url: "https://www.belvedere.at/en/press/akseli-gallen-kallela" --- # Akseli Gallen-Kallela ### Picturing Finland 27 September 2024 – 2 February 2025 [Press kit "Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Picturing Finland" (EN)](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2024-09/Pressemappe%20AGK_EN.pdf) ![Ölgemälde, das den Blick auf einen stillen See darstellt — Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Lake View, 1901 — Photo: Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki / Hannu Pakarinen](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2023-08/KG2021DK127.jpg) ## Press Images ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2024-09/UB%20Gallen-Kallela%20PR-1.jpg) Exhibition view Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Picturing Finland Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2024-09/UB%20Gallen-Kallela%20PR-2.jpg) Exhibition view Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Picturing Finland Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2024-09/UB%20Gallen-Kallela%20PR-3.jpg) Exhibition view Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Picturing Finland Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2024-09/UB%20Gallen-Kallela%20PR-4.jpg) Exhibition view Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Picturing Finland Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2024-09/UB%20Gallen-Kallela%20PR-5.jpg) Exhibition view Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Picturing Finland Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2024-09/UB%20Gallen-Kallela%20PR-6.jpg) Exhibition view Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Picturing Finland Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2024-09/UB%20Gallen-Kallela%20PR-7.jpg) Exhibition view Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Picturing Finland Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2024-09/UB%20Gallen-Kallela%20PR-8.jpg) Exhibition view Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Picturing Finland Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2023-08/KG2021DK127.jpg) Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Lake View, 1901 Photo: Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki / Hannu Pakarinen ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2023-08/KG2021DK986.jpg) Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Spring, study for the Juselius Mausoleum frescoes, 1903 Photo: Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki / Jenni Nurminen ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2024-08/Junge%20mit%20Kr%C3%A4he_1884_Finnische%20Nationalgalerie_Helsinki_Sammlungen%20Antell.jpg) Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Boy with a Crow, 1884 Photo: Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki / Yehia Eweis ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2023-08/KG2021DK571.jpg) Akseli Gallen-Kallela, The Defence of the Sampo, 1895 Photo: Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki / Hannu Pakarinen ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2024-08/Die%20Verteidigung%20des%20Sampo_1896_Kunstmuseum%20Turku.jpg) Akseli Gallen-Kallela, The Defense of the Sampo, 1896 Photo: Turku Art Museum / Kari Lehtinen ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2023-08/KG2021DK130.jpg) Akseli Gallen-Kallela, First lesson, 1887-89 Photo: Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki / Hannu Pakarinen ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2023-08/KG2021DK1204.jpg) Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Lemminkäinen‘s Mother, 1897 Photo: Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki / Hannu Pakarinen ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2024-08/K%C3%BCnstlerportr%C3%A4t%20Akseli%20Gallen-Kallela_0.jpg) Artist Portrait Akseli Gallen-Kallela Photo: Gallen-Kallela Museum, Espoo ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2024-08/Axel%20Gall%C3%A9n%20auf%20Skiern%20in%20Suolahti_1906_Gallen-Kallela%20Museum_Espoo.jpg) Akseli Gallen-Kallela skiing in Suolahti, 1906 Photo: Gallen-Kallela Museum, Espoo ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2023-08/419.jpg) Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Spring, c. 1900 Photo: Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2024-08/Palok%C3%A4rki%20%28Der%20gro%C3%9Fe%20Schwarzspecht%29_1894_Mus%C3%A9e%20d%E2%80%99Orsay_Paris.jpg) Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Palokärki (The Great Black Woodpecker), 1894 Photo: Musée d’Orsay, Paris / Patrice Schmidt ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2024-08/Wolken_1904_Didrichsen%20Museum_Helsinki.jpg) Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Clouds, 1904 Photo: Didrichsen Art Museum / Rauno Träskelin ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2024-08/Keitele-See_1904_Privatsammlung%20%28courtesy%20Gallen-Kallela%20Museum%29.jpg) Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Lake Keitele, 1904 Private collection Photo: Gallen-Kallela Museum, Espoo / Jukka Paavola ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2024-08/Aino-Mythos_Triptychon_1891_Finnische%20Nationalgalerie_Helsinki.jpg) Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Aino Myth, triptych, 1891 Photo: Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki / Hannu Aaltonen ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2024-08/Flamme_Teppich%20f%C3%BCr%20das%20Zimmer%20der%20Iris-Werke%20im%20finnischen%20Pavillon%20der%20Weltausstellung%20in%20Paris%201900_Gallen-Kallela%20Museum_Espoo.jpg) Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Flame, rug for the room presented by the Iris Workshops in the Finnish Pavilion at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, copy of the original from 1899, 1965 Design: Akseli Gallen-Kallela, execution: Friends of the Finnish Handicrafts Photo: Gallen-Kallela Museum, Espoo / Jukka Paavola ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2024-08/Stuhl%20f%C3%BCr%20das%20Zimmer%20der%20Iris-Werke%20im%20finnischen%20Pavillon%20der%20Weltausstellung%20in%20Paris%201900_1899.jpg) Akseli Gallen-Kallela, chair for the room presented by the Iris Workshops in the Finnish Pavilion at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, 1899 Design: Akseli Gallen-Kallela, execution: Iris Factory Photo: Gallen-Kallela Museum, Espoo / Jukka Paavola ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2024-08/Farbholzschnitt_Der%20Tod%20und%20die%20Blume_1896_Gallen-Kallela%20Museum_Espoo.jpg) Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Death and the Flower, 1896 Color woodcut Photo: Gallen-Kallela Museum, Espoo / Jukka Paavola The texts, images, and documents provided here are copyrighted and are made available exclusively for the purpose of reporting on the exhibitions mentioned. Please contact the press team in regards to image credits and copyrights. For any additional use or distribution, please obtain approval in writing from the press team. For more information and press images please contact: #### Media Relations ##### Petra Fuchs T: [+43 1 795 57-177](tel:+43179557-177) M: [+43 664 800 141-177](tel:+43664800141-177) E-Mail: [**p.fuchs@belvedere.at**](mailto:p.fuchs@belvedere.at) ## Related exposition [**Akseli Gallen-Kallela**](https://www.belvedere.at/en/akseli-gallen-kallela) — Picturing Finland — 27 September 2024 - 2 February 2025 — Exhibition — Lower Belvedere