Tarvaspää [SEP] architect
Tarvaspää
The Gallen-Kallela Museum, located in Tarvaspää, Espoo, Finland and built between 1911 and 1913 was a home and studio for Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela. The atelier building Tarvaspää has been a museum since 1961.
Gallen-Kallela lived in the United States, where an exhibition of his work toured several cities, and where he visited the Taos art-colony in New Mexico to study indigenous American art. In 1925 he began the illustrations for his "Great Kalevala". This was still unfinished when he died of pneumonia in Stockholm on 7 March 1931, while returning from a lecture in Copenhagen, Denmark.
His studio and house at Tarvaspää was opened as the Gallen-Kallela Museum in 1961; it houses some of his works