Georg Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa[needs IPA] (born. Wetterhoff-Asp, 7 May 1870 – 18 February 1946) was a Finnish multiartist: painter, sculptor, writer, and a pseudo-linguist.[1] He is best known for his fantastical theories about the past of the Finnish people, whom he believed to have descended from Ancient Egypt.[1][2]
Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa | |
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 Sigurd Wettenhovi Aspa in 1940 | |
| Born | 7 May 1870 Georg Sigurd Wettenhovi Aspa
Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland |
| Died | 18 February 1946 (Age 75) Helsinki, Finland |
Resting place | Hietaniemi Cemetery, Helsinki |
| Education | Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts |
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| Known for | Free Exhibitions |
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Born in Helsinki, his parents were Georg August Asp (1834–1901), professor of anatomy at the University of Helsinki and Mathilda Sofia Wetterhoff (1840–1920), developer of female gymnastics.
Wettenhovi-Aspa studied art in Copenhagen in the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1888 to 1891.[3] He organized several art shows known as the Free Exhibitions. He died in Helsinki.
Publications
edit- Pro patria (1900)[4]
- La crise russe (1905)
- Finlands gyllene bok (1915)
- Lördagskvällar (1916)
- Receptsamling till goda inhemska bärviner, likörer och "nubbar" Receptsamling till goda inhemska bärviner, likörer och "nubbar" jämte några spikar till förbudslagens likkista av Jesus Kristus, Jesus Ben Syrach, Mårten Luther, Elias Lönnrot, Horatius, Ovidius, Shakespeare, A. von Hallen m.fl. (1919)
- Jutelmia ja muistelmia 1890-luvun Parisista ja August Strindbergin Inferno-vuosista. (1927)
- Fenno-ägyptischer Kulturursprung der alten Welt (1935)
- Kalevala ja Egypti. (1935)
- The Diamondking of Sahara (1935)
References
edit- 1 2 "Wettenhovi-Aspa ja utopia Suomen mahdista" (in Finnish). Yle Elävä arkisto.
- ↑ Pitkälä, Pekka (14 June 2020). "Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa, August Strindberg and a dispute concerning the common origins of the languages of mankind 1911–1912". Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis. 29: 49–81–49–81. doi:10.30674/scripta.89215. ISSN 2343-4937.
- ↑ "Suomen kuvataiteilijat - WETTENHOVI-ASPA (ent. Wetterhoff-Asp)". Kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 30 September 2007.
- ↑ "Wettenhovi-Aspa, S.". Writers in Finland 1809–1916 (in Finnish). Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura och Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland. 1993. pp. 847–848. ISBN 951-717-714-3.
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