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Feb 26
verartblog: Hugo Simberg The Wounded Angel 1903 Ateneum, Helsinki 127 x 154 Oil on canvas Hugo Simberg is a Finnish symbolist painter.. Like other Simberg paintings, The Wounded Angel evokes a melancholy atmosphere: the angelic central figure with her bandaged eyes and bloodied wing, the sombre clothing of her two youthful bearers. The direct gaze of the right-hand figure touches the viewer. The allegorical procession with the angel walks through quite a realistic landscape. The landscape in the painting is from Eläintarha, Helsinki, and the water body in the background is Töölönlahti bay in Helsinki. When Simberg was tasked to paint the frescoes at Tampere Cathedral in 1905-06 one was a larger version of The Wounded Angel.

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Hugo Simberg

The Wounded Angel

1903

Ateneum, Helsinki

127 x 154

Oil on canvas

Hugo Simberg is a Finnish symbolist painter.. Like other Simberg paintings, The Wounded Angel evokes a melancholy atmosphere: the angelic central figure with her bandaged eyes and bloodied wing, the sombre clothing of her two youthful bearers. The direct gaze of the right-hand figure touches the viewer. The allegorical procession with the angel walks through quite a realistic landscape. The landscape in the painting is from Eläintarha, Helsinki, and the water body in the background is Töölönlahti bay in Helsinki. When Simberg was tasked to paint the frescoes at Tampere Cathedral in 1905-06 one was a larger version of The Wounded Angel.

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