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Hugo Simberg

268 works

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Etching of summer waves rolling toward a wooded shoreline with scattered rocks under a pale sky.

Kesän aaltoja

1898

Monochrome print of a body on a bier beneath a bare tree, with garlanded mourners and a procession of figures across a field.

Piru on kuollut

1907

Etching of a man drawing at a table while a skeleton Death with a scythe sits beside him in a dim room.

Death Asks for an Image on His Scythe

1897

Etching of two old women in headscarves seated facing each other on the ground in a forest of thin trees.

Old Women in the Forest

1908

Etching of an elderly woman in a headscarf with a child peering from behind her, with a bird above on the right.

Vinnarin sisarukset

1898

Etching of skeletal figures in cloaks tending potted plants and cacti on wooden garden tiers.

The Garden of Death ; In the Garden of Death

1897

Etching of a cloaked skeletal figure standing beside a seated elderly woman in a headscarf on a wooden porch.

Death and the Old Woman

Etching of three horned, hairy nude figures with a trombone, lute and bottle walking across a field, with a foot at lower rig

Epäsointuja

1900

Hand-colored print of two nude children carrying a long garland of green leaves and red flowers across a dark background.

Garland Bearers II

1908

Etching of two dog sledges racing across a frozen lake toward a distant wooded shoreline under a windy sky.

Racing on the Ice

1912

Etching of a horse pulling a sledge across a snowy landscape with hills and dark conifer trees.

Talvitie II

1899

Etching of a round stone tower with a pointed conical roof, partly hidden by a leaning pine tree in snowy ground.

Torni

1905

Sepia bookplate showing a log cabin with books in its window, the words Ex Libris Axel Gallén carved on its beams.

Exlibris Axel Gallén

1896

Etching of three children bathing in rippling shallow water, with reeds and a distant shoreline behind them.

Bathing Children

1902

Etching of two nude youths hauling a heavy, thorny vine bundle across dark, stormy ground.

Köynnöksenkantajat I

1906

Etching of a devil sitting atop a swing frame beside a wooden house with a chimney and clouds above.

Piru kiikussa

1907

Etching of two skeletal figures in cloaks tending a garden of raised beds and potted plants, with trees behind.

Kuoleman puutarha

1897

Etching of a child in a white cap seated in a rowboat, gazing across calm water toward a distant shore.

Little Brother in a Boat

1898

Etched sketch of a man in a cap skiing on long poles across a snowy slope with blowing snow.

Gallen-Kallela Skiing

1897

Marie von Heiroth II

1901

Etching of a young calf standing in a farmyard with hatched lines for barn and fence, labeled Bunka 1913.

Bunka

1913

Brown etching of a skier in a cap and coat standing between two gravestones before a snowy field and tree line.

Kevättä kohti

Sketch of a centaur-like creature plucking a winged child's wings beside a river, with a crouching nude woman in the foregrou

Enkelin siipiä kynitään

1911

Etching of tree trunks on a bank reflected in a still forest pond, with dense hatched foliage behind.

Soinen lampi

1915

Black and white print of a nude figure arching backward with head hidden in shadow, hands on the floor.

Kumartuva malli

1905

Etching of a scaly, seated figure holding a fish at the edge of icy water, with birds flying overhead.

Fish Boy

1900

Etching of a boy crouching to touch water on stone steps while a girl in a long coat watches, signed H.S. 1911.

Children Playing

1911

Etching of a hunched figure with head bowed, seated on a large rock above a distant shoreline.

Vesikivellä I

1897

Etching of a skull form in dark speckled ink with pale eye sockets and loose scratched lines across a light lower area.

Pääkallo, harjoitelma

1906

Lars Sonck

1906

Pääkallo ja käärmepullo

1907

Drawing of a nude child seated barefoot reaching toward a fallen rose, with a rose bush behind.

A Fallen Rose

1906