Eeli Aalto
Eeli Alvar Aalto (born 6 February 1931 in Vyborg, Finland (present-day Russia)) is a Finland, Finnish visual artist and television director. Youth During the Winter War, Eeli Aalto and his parents fled the war to the Pohjois-Pohjanmaa region, first to Liminka and then to Oulu.Eeli Aalto: 100 kuvaa Oulusta
city of Oulu. Accessed on 20 February 2014. Eeli Aalto became acquainted with art at the age of 10 when he saw paintings by the Liminka-based artist Vilho Lampi.

Career

Painting and other visual arts

Aalto studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki and later in Paris, France at the André Lhote academy. Aalto participated in the frescoes by Lennart Segerstråle at the Rovaniemi Church. He painted ...
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Vyborg
Vyborg (; , ; , ; , ) is a town and the administrative center of Vyborgsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It lies on the Karelian Isthmus near the head of Vyborg Bay, northwest of St. Petersburg, east of the Finnish capital Helsinki, and south of Russia's border with Finland, where the Saimaa Canal enters the Gulf of Finland. The most recent census population of Vyborg is Vyborg was founded as a medieval fortress in Finland under Swedish rule during the Third Swedish Crusade. After numerous wars between the Russians and Swedes, the Treaty of Nöteborg in 1323 defined the border of eastern Finland, and would separate the two cultures. Vyborg remained under Swedish rule until it was captured by the Russians during the Great Northern War. Under Russian rule, Vyborg was the seat of Vyborg Governorate until it was incorporated into the newly established Grand Duchy of Finland, an autonomous part of the Russian Empire. Finland declared its independence from R ...
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