November Group (Marraskuun ryhmä) was an association of Finnish
expressionist
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...
artists, gathered around
Tyko Sallinen
Tyko Konstantin Sallinen (March 14, 1879 in Nurmes – September 18, 1955 in Helsinki) was a Finnish expressionism style painter.
In late 1916 Sallinen became a founder member of the November Group, which was a Finnish group of expressionists and ...
. The group was founded in time when
Finland
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declared its independence from Russia and the members of the November Group were sometimes aggressively nationalistic in outlook, creating a distinctively Finnish form of Expressionism. The November group caused the greatest ever uproar in Finnish art. In the Finnish art community of its age it represented everything that was ugly, incompetent, distorting and primitive. Today the movement is considered one of the most important and influenced movements in Finnish art.
Members of the group included Tyko Sallinen,
Marcus Collin,
Alvar Cawén,
Juho Rissanen and
Gabriel Engberg. These five had a group exhibition 17 November to 5 December 1917, and in decided to found a group during that exhibition. Other members of the group were
Eero Nelimarkka,
Juho Mäkelä
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Early career
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,
Wäinö Aaltonen
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He was born to a tailor in the village of Karinainen, Finla ...
,
Ilmari Aalto,
Hannes Autere,
Kalle Carlstedt,
Mikko Carlstedt,
Ragnar Ekelund,
Uuno Eskola,
Einar Ilmoni,
Karl Ingelius,
Jussi Jylänki,
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,
Viljo Kojo,
Paavo Leinonen,
Anton Lindforss,
Arvo Makkonen,
Alex Matson,
Kosti Meriläinen,
Jalmari Ruokokoski
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,
Inni Siegberg and
Antti Wanninen.
The group took its name from month of its first exhibition.
Sallinen, Collin and Cawén had studied in France and were familiar with French
fauvism and expressionism. However, they selected to use dark grey and brownish colours instead of the bright colours favoured by French fauvism. They also took influences of
cubism and Russian cube-futurism.
Many of the future group members had met each other in Denmark already in 1910, where they stayed with taylor Niels-Peder Rydeng, who became a patron and collector of modern art.
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Finnish Expressionist painters