#Robert Wilhelm Ekman

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Ilmatar

Robert Wilhelm Ekman

1860

[lux-vitae]

Detail of Lemminkäinen At The Fiery Lake, Sketch by Robert Wilhelm Ekman (1867)

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Robert Wilhelm Ekman (Finnish, 1808-1873)

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Italian Flower-Girl, 1845 Robert Wilhelm Ekman

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Lemminkäinen at the Fiery Lake (Robert Wilhelm Ekman, 1867)

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Robert Wilhelm Ekman - Ilmatar, 1860.

Description

The figure of Ilmatar in the Kalevala appears in the story of creation. Ilmatar was a virgin spirit of the air who descended into the primal sea and was impregnated by the wind. A duck flying over the waters laid its eggs on Ilmatar’s knee. From the eggs came the earth, the sky, the sun, the moon and the stars. Ilmatar also created the shores and fishing waters and later the great sage of the Kalevala, Väinämöinen. Robert Wilhelm Ekman was the first teacher at the Turku School of Drawing and was also a royal court and history painter in Stockholm. He painted many pictures on themes from the Kalevala in which an exalted classicistic style and romantic influences united the world of the Kalevala with the culture of antiquity. (Text source)

[thejarlofwhiterun]

A Resting Harvest Girl Robert Wilhelm Ekman Finnish, 1837 Oil on canvas

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Väinämöinen’s Play

Robert Wilhelm Ekman

1866

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The Morning Before An Examination by Robert Wilhelm Ekman

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“The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian”, c.1832 by Robert Wilhelm Ekman (1808-1873). Finnish painter. oil on canvas

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The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian. 1832. Robert Wilhelm Ekman Finnish. 1808-1873. oil/canvas.      http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

[lux-vitae]

Lemminkäinen Tulisella Järvellä (Lemminkäinen at the Fiery Lake) by Robert Wilhelm Ekman (1867)

[1five1two]

'Lemminkäinen's Mother at the River of Tuonela'. Robert Wilhelm Ekman. 1862.

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Robert Wilhelm Ekman (detail)

[venustapolis]

Lemminkäinen and the Fiery Eagle (Robert Wilhelm Ekman, 1867)

[my-friend-meowth]

Detail of Robert Wilhelm Ekman's Ilmatar (1860)