Lennart Segerstråle
Lennart Rafael Segerstråle (17 June 1892 – 11 April 1975) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish painter and graphic artist. He was best known for his murals and frescoes. Biography Lennart Rafael Segerstråle was born in Helsinki Rural Municipality, now Vantaa, on the outskirts of Helsinki. He is the second child of Knut Albert Segerstråle, a theologian and teacher at the Borgå High School in Porvoo and Hanna Frosterus-Segerstråle, painter. His younger sister, Solveig von Schoultz (1907–1996) became known as a poet and author of news and children's books. Lennart Segerstråle first attended the Fine Arts at the University of Helsinki, where he studied under the direction of painter and art professor Eero Järnefelt (1863–1937). From 1919 he devoted himself exclusively to art, especially painting. He began to make himself known by the quality of his images and animal motifs. In the 1920s and 1930s he became the most famous animal painter in Finland. Its aim is to represen ...
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