Oil on canvas; 127 x 154 cm. Hugo Gerhard Simberg was a Finnish symbolist painter and graphic artist. Simberg was born at Hamina (original Swedish Fredrikshamn) in Finland, the son of Colonel Nicolai Simberg and Ebba Matilda Simberg. In 1891, at the age of 18, he enrolled at the Drawing School of the Viipuri Friends of Art, and also studied at the Drawing School of the Finnish Art Association (1893–1895), but in 1895 decided to become the private pupil of Akseli Gallen-Kallela at his…
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