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Mikonkatu (Helsinki)
Mikonkatu (Swedish: ''Mikaelsgatan'') is a street in central Helsinki, Finland, leading north from the Esplanadi Park to the Kaisaniemi Park, mostly converted into a pedestrian street in 1992. Mikonkatu was named in 1820 after Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia (1798 - 1849), brother of Emperor of Russia Alexander I. The street was built into its current length and form in 1830. The Finnish name of street was Mikaelinkatu from 1909 to 1928. There are tram tracks on Mikonkatu, going along the eastern edge of the Helsinki Railway Square to Kaivokatu. Trams travelled on this Vilhonkatu - Mikonkatu route in both directions until 1950, when a new route along Kaisaniemenkatu was opened from Kaivokatu towards Kaisaniemi. The trams travelled from Kaisaniemi to Kaivokatu along Vilhonkatu and Mikonkatu until 1994, when the tram track along Kaisaniemenkatu was widened to two lanes. The Vilhonkatu - Mikonkatu route is still used for tram traffic on special occasions. A two-lane, pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilda Flodin
Hilda Flodin (16 March 1877 – 9 March 1958) was a Finnish artist. She worked in a variety of media, but in the first part of her career primarily sculpture and etchings, later primarily painting, especially portraits. Life and career Flodin was born in Helsinki into a family with musical and artistic interests. Her mother was the sister of Ida Basilier-Magelssen. She came from a family of 9 and one of her sisters, Fanny, became a pianist. The composer Karl Flodin was her cousin. She began her art studies in 1893 when she was 16 at the Drawing School of the Finnish Art Society in Helsinki, now the Academy of Fine Arts, where her teachers included Albert Gebhard, Elin Danielson and Maria Wiik, and in sculpture Johan Friedl and Carl Eneas Sjöstrand, but in later life she particularly recalled Helene Schjerfbeck. She won an award at the end of her first year in 1897, placing third in the Society's annual prize contest for young artists, and in 1903 she took second place. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Romanticism
Romantic nationalism (also national romanticism, organic nationalism, identity nationalism) is the form of nationalism in which the state claims its political legitimacy as an organic consequence of the unity of those it governs. This includes such factors as language, race, ethnicity, culture, religion, and customs of the nation in its primal sense of those who were born within its culture. It can be applied to ethnic nationalism as well as civic nationalism. Romantic nationalism arose in reaction to dynastic or imperial hegemony, which assessed the legitimacy of the state from the top down, emanating from a monarch or other authority, which justified its existence. Such downward-radiating power might ultimately derive from a god or gods (see the divine right of kings and the Mandate of Heaven). Among the key themes of Romanticism, and its most enduring legacy, the cultural assertions of romantic nationalism have also been central in post-Enlightenment art and political philos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gesellius, Lindgren, Saarinen
Gesellius, Lindgren, Saarinen was a Finnish architecture firm, founded in Helsinki in 1896 by architects Herman Gesellius, Armas Lindgren and Eliel Saarinen. They achieved international recognition with their design for the Finnish pavilion at the Paris World Expo in 1900, designed in the then prevailing Art Nouveau style. In 1901–1904 the three architects designed and built an extensive studio home for themselves and their families called Hvitträsk, in the rural community of Kirkkonummi by the lake. In 1905 the company ceased operations and the National Museum of Finland was their last work. Its construction was monitored by Lindgren alone. Major works Finnish Pavilion at the Paris 1900 Exposition The Exposition Universelle of 1900, better known in English as the 1900 Paris Exposition, was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 14 April to 12 November 1900, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate developmen ... Other works Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pohjola Insurance Building
The Pohjola Insurance building is the former headquarters of the Pohjola Insurance Company at Aleksanterinkatu 44 and Mikonkatu 3 in central Helsinki. Primarily designed by Gesellius, Lindgren & Saarinen and constructed in 1899–1901, it is a prominent example of Finnish national romantic architecture. It was acquired in 1972 by Kansallis-Osake-Pankki, now succeeded by Nordea. Background The Pohjola Insurance Company (precursor of OP Financial Group) was founded in 1891 and specialised in fire insurance. They held a competition for the design of their headquarters, which would also house another Fennomane insurance company, Kullervo, with the specification that the building must be of fire-resistant stone. Based on the submissions, they commissioned Gesellius, Lindgren & Saarinen to design the exteriors and major interior spaces, but Ines and Ernst A. Törnvall were responsible for the plans.Jonathan Moorhouse, Michael Carapetian and Leena Ahtola-Moorhouse, ''Helsinki Jugend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrede Passage
The Wrede passage, also known as the "Old merchant alley" (Finnish language, Finnish: ''Vanha kauppakuja'') or the "Grandma tunnel" (Finnish: ''Mummotunneli'') is an entity formed by two stone buildings in Kluuvi, Helsinki, Finland. The name refers also to the merchant alley stretching throughout the block. The passage is formed by the ''Wrede house'' in the corner between Esplanadi, Pohjoisesplanadi and Mikonkatu (Pohjoisesplanadi 35) and the ''Central house'' in the corner between Aleksanterinkatu and Mikonkatu (Aleksanterinkatu 46). The building entity represents Renaissance Revival architecture and was designed and partly commissioned by architect Karl August Wrede, and built in 1888 and 1892. Name Among architects, the entity is known as the Wrede passage, but its official Finnish name has been ''Vanha kauppakuja'' ("Old merchant passage") since a naming competition held in 1958.''K. A. Wrede ja 100-vuotias pasaasi'', City museum of Helsinki, Helsinki 1988. .Saara Peltola: ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl August Wrede
Karl August Wrede (18 September 1859 – 25 May 1943) was a Finnish-Swedish architect. His buildings are mostly in the Neo-Renaissance and Neo-Gothic styles. Biography He was born into a noble family, the Wrede af Elimä, at their manor home. His father, , was a lawyer and member of Parliament."Wrede, Karl August (1859-1943)" by Eeva Maija Viljo, from the @ Henkilöhistoria His brother, , followed in their father's career path. After their mother's early death, they lived at a private boarding school.Saara Peltola: ''Arkkitehti K.A. Wreden (1859–1943) elämä ja tuotanto, teoksessa K. A. Wrede ja 100-vuotias pasaasi'', |
Elia Heikel
Elia is a name which may be a variant of the names Elias, Elijah, Eli or Eliahu, and may refer to: People * Aelia (gens) or Elia, a ''gens'' of Ancient Rome Mononymic * Elia or Elijah, a biblical prophet * Elia, a pen-name of Charles Lamb First name *Elia Abu Madi, (1890–1957), Lebanese poet *Elia Barceló (born 1957), Spanish writer *Elia Goode Byington (1858–1936), American journalist *Elia Cmíral (born 1950), Czech film composer *Elia Dalla Costa (1872–1961), Italian cardinal and Archbishop of Florence *Elia del Medigo (1458–1493), Greek rabbi *Elia Favilli (born 1989), Italian cyclist *Elia Frosio (1913–2005), Italian cyclist *Elia Galera (born 1973), Spanish actress *Elia Kaiyamo (born 1951), Namibian politician *Elia Kazan (1909–2003), American director and producer * Elia Legati (born 1986), Italian football player *Elia Levita (1469–1549), German Hebrew scholar *Elia Liut (1894–1952), Italian aviator *Elia Luini (born 1979), Italian rower *Elia Millose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selim A
Salim, Saleem or Selim may refer to: People *Salim (name), or Saleem or Salem or Selim, a name of Arabic origin *Salim (poet) (1800–1866) *Saleem (playwright) (fl. 1996) *Selim I, Selim II and Selim III, Ottoman Sultans * Selim people, an ethnic group of Sudan *Salim, birth name of Mughal Emperor Jahangir Fictional characters * Saleem, in ''Corner Shop Show'' * Selim Bradley, in ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' * Pasha Selim, in Mozart's opera ''Die Entführung aus dem Serail'' * Saleem Sinai, in ''Midnight's Children'' * Salim Othman, in '' House of Ashes'' Places * Salim, Iran (other) * Salem, Ma'ale Iron, or Salim, Israel * Salim, Syria * Selim, Yenipazar, Turkey * Selim (District), Kars, Turkey ** Selim railway station * Salim, Nablus, West Bank Other uses * ''Salim'' (film), a 2014 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film * ''Saleem'' (film), a 2009 Telugu film *Selim (horse) (1802–1825), 19th-century Thoroughbred racehorse * Salim Group, an Indonesian conglo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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