Santeri Salokivi
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Toivo Santeri Salokivi – ''Johansson'' until 1900 – (2 September 1886,
Turku Turku ( ; ; sv, Åbo, ) is a city and former capital on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper (''Varsinais-Suomi'') and the former Turku and Pori Province (''Turun ja Porin lääni''; ...
– 26 March 1940,
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), was a Finnish painter and graphic artist.


Biography

Salokivi studied at the between 1900–1904 and thereafter in
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and
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. He taught at the Turku Drawing School between 1914–1917 and ran his own painting school in Helsinki between 1931 and 1933. Salokivi's works are greatly influenced by light saturation. His works include
impressionistic Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passag ...
archipelago motifs, figure compositions and finely executed etchings. His wife was Majsi Salokivi (1888-1953), née Maria Mattson. He is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki.


Works


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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 ...


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Salokivi, Santeri
at ''Uppslagsverket Finland''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Salokivi, Santeri 1886 births 1940 deaths Artists from Turku Landscape painters 20th-century Finnish painters Burials at Hietaniemi Cemetery