1895
unspecified
From the collection of Finnish National Gallery
Lemminkäisen äiti is a 1895 unspecified by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, a Art Nouveau work, held at Finnish National Gallery.
This painting shows a woman reaching into dark water. Her long red hair falls over her shoulders. She holds a dead man wrapped in white cloth. The man is Lemminkäinen, a hero from Finnish folklore. His mother refuses to let him stay dead. She grabs his body from a river filled with snakes. Blood swirls in the water like red ribbons. Check out another painting by the same artist, Gallen-Kallela, Akseli.
Akseli Gallen-Kallela (born Axel Waldemar Gallén; 26 April 1865 – 7 March 1931) was a Finnish painter and a leading figure of Finnish romantic nationalism around the turn of the 20th century.
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