Nikolai Lehto, (1905

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painter. He was interested in art when he moved to Turku in the 1920s. At a beginning, productions were traditional, realistic and paintings of humans. In time, artist went more to naivistic and

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-style. Most popular works included humans and animals.http://www.kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi/fi/taiteilijat/752 kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli, ''finnish''

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