Pentti Ensio Kaskipuro ( (until 1935); 1930–2010) was an artist from

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

. During World War II, Kaskipuro was sent to Sweden as one of the

Finnish war children During World War II some 70,000 Finnish children ( fi, sotalapset, the 'war children' sv, krigsbarn) were evacuated from Finland, chiefly to Sweden, but also to Norway and Denmark.Korppi- Tommola, Aura"War and children in Finland during the Seco ...

. He returned to Finland in 1946. Kaskipuro was one of the best-known and internationally renowned Finnish graphic artists, not only among specialist circles, but among the art-loving public. The most common themes of his

drypoint Drypoint is a printmaking technique of the intaglio (printmaking), intaglio family, in which an image is incised into a plate (or "matrix") with a hard-pointed "needle" of sharp metal or diamond point. In principle, the method is practically ident ...

and

aquatint Aquatint is an intaglio printmaking technique, a variant of etching that produces areas of tone rather than lines. For this reason it has mostly been used in conjunction with etching, to give both lines and shaded tone. It has also been used h ...

prints are everyday items, such as onions, swedes, potatoes, bread, eggs and vases of flowers. Kaskipuro did not receive much formal art training - he was a private student of Aukusti Tuhka in 1952. After that he worked in advertisement business and learned more techniques of printmaking on his own. He became an appreciated teacher in School of art and design in 1965–1974 and as art professor 1974–1979. He is referred as "Master K" among the printmakers of the next artist generation,Pentti Kaskipuro
Jyväskylä Art Museum. such as Mirja Airas, Marjatta Hanhijoki,

Outi Heiskanen Outi Marjatta Heiskanen (26 September 1937 – 30 September 2022) was a Finnish artist. She debuted in 1971. Outi Heiskanen was famous for her figurative graphic work. Her subjects included her family and friends, animals, as well as animal- ...

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, Elina Luukanen, Marjatta Nuoreva and Esa Riippa. He received the Swedish

Prince Eugen Medal The Prince Eugen Medal ( sv, Prins Eugen-medaljen) is a medal conferred by the King of Sweden for "outstanding artistic achievement". The medal was established in 1945 by the then King of Sweden, Gustaf V, in connection with the eightieth birthd ...

in 1974.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kaskipuro, Pentti Finnish printmakers 1930 births 2010 deaths Finnish expatriates in Sweden Finnish refugees Refugees in Sweden