Akseli_Gallen-Kallela_-_Portrait_of_Kenosua.jpg

Summary

Artist



Alternative names	Axel Waldemar Gallén
Description	Finnish painter, printmaker, illustrator, architect, designer and graphic artist
Date of birth/death	26 April 1865	7 March 1931
Location of birth/death	Pori	Stockholm
Authority file	: Q170068 VIAF : 5047015 ISNI : 0000000108650663 ULAN : 500015305 LCCN : n79127990 NLA : 35570691 WorldCat

Title

Kenosua

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Date

1909–1910

Medium

pastel

Dimensions

height: 50 cm (19.6 in); width: 34 cm (13.3 in)

Collection

Private collection

Accession number

GKM-7773 ( Gallen-Kallela Museum )

Notes

In Kenya, Kenosua was an aide and a friend to the Gallen-Kallela family. He always escorted the family's children to school. He's described as one of the Kikuyu people .

References

Gallen-Kallelan Museum: Kulttuurikurkkaus (August 2019) http://www.gallen-kallela.fi/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/GKM_kulttuurikurkkaus.pdf or https://www.gallen-kallela.fi/museokaynti/kouluille/

Source/Photographer

http://www.valokuvamaailma.fi/Sivusto/Akselin_Afrikka/Sivut/Akselin_maalaukset.html#10 / Juha Laitalainen (slightly cropped)

Permission
( Reusing this file )

This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:

The author died in 1931, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or fewer .

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office ) before January 1, 1929.

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Other versions

Kulttuurikurkkaus / Petri Summanen

Summary

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Items portrayed in this file

depicts

Kenosua

digital representation of

Kenosua

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main subject

Kenosua

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