Biography

Finnish sculptor. He was a student under Carl Eneas Sjöstrand (1828-1906) in Helsinki and from 1877 under Pierre Jules Cavalier (1814-1896) in Paris, where he lived and worked as an artist until 1913. He subsequently returned to Helsinki.

His oeuvre includes bronze sculptures, statuettes of nudes in bronze, silver and china, monuments, portrait busts, and the Havis Amanda fountain in Helsinki (1904-07). His small, dancing bronze figures embody the joie de vivre typical of Art Nouveau.