Hugo Simberg

Simberg paints gentle Finnish allegory — pale bandaged angels, small devils and death as a quiet companion, in muted, chalky, folk-simple colour.

Hugo Simberg (1873–1917) was a painter from Finland, associated with Symbolism.

A late-19th-century movement of dreams, myth, and inner emotion expressed through suggestive, evocative imagery. Symbolism →

More Symbolism painters: Gustav Klimt, Edvard Munch, Gustave Moreau, Harald Sohlberg.

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The Garden of Death — Hugo Simberg
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