Onni Okkonen (20 August 1886 – 18 May 1962) was a Finnish art historian based at the

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. Okkonen was born in Korpiselkä in Karelia and earned his Ph.D. in 1914. He was appointed professor of art history at the University of Helsinki in 1927, a position that he held until 1945. His main research interests were

Finnish art Finnish art started to form its individual characteristics in the 19th century, when romantic nationalism began to rise in the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland. Prehistoric art Marks of human activity in Finland has found in Susiluola, Krist ...

and Italian

Renaissance art Renaissance art (1350 – 1620 AD) is the painting, sculpture, and decorative arts of the period of European history known as the Renaissance, which emerged as a distinct style in Italy in about AD 1400, in parallel with developments which occ ...

. His works include an overview of the history of Finnish art, ''Suomen taiteen historia'' (1945), which was translated into English in 1946, as well as monographies on Wäinö Aaltonen, Juho Rissanen and Akseli Gallen-Kallela. He was also active as an art critic for the newspaper ''

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,'' as well as a fiction writer and painter. He was chairman of the Kalevala Society from 1937 to 1942 and a member of the Academy of Finland from 1948 to 1956. He is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in

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Onni Okkonen.
375 humanists. University of Helsinki. {{DEFAULTSORT:Okkonen, Onni 1886 births 1962 deaths People from Suoyarvsky District People from Viipuri Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Finnish art historians Finnish art critics Academic staff of the University of Helsinki Burials at Hietaniemi Cemetery