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"Janne Gallen-Kallela-Sirén: Recent Contributions to Finnish and Nordic
Art History and Cultural Studies"

This is a bibliographic reply to Claudia de Brün's offhanded assessment
of my scholarship as expressed in her review of the Bröhan-Museum's Das
Licht kommt jetzt von Norden - Jugendstil in Finnland exhibition
catalogue. The following is a list of my publications relevant to the
topic:

"Akseli Gallen-Kallela and the Pursuit of New History and New Art:
Inventing Finnish Art Nouveau," in Now the Light Comes from the North:
Art Nouveau in Finland, eds. Ingeborg Becker and Sigrid Melchior, exh.
cat., Berlin, Bröhan-Museum, 2002, 42-50.

"Akseli Gallen-Kallela et l'invention de la tradition," trans. Brice
Matthieussent, in Lumière du monde, lumière du ciel: Visions du Nord, ed.
Sophie Grêlé, exh. cat., Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris,
1998, 31-35.

"Akseli Gallen-Kallelas Wasserfall bei Mäntykoski - Nationalismus
zwischen Natur und Mythos," trans. Michael Fuchs, in Landschaft als
Kosmos der Seele: Malerei des Nordischen Symbolismus bis Munch 1880-1910,
ed. Götz Czymmek, exh. cat., Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, 1998, 119-
127.

"Axel Gallén and the Art of Language: To Paint the Unpaintable," in
Danish and European Symbolist Painting, 1870-1910, ed. Peter Nørgaard
Larsen, exh. cat., Copenhagen, The National Gallery of Denmark (Statens
Museum for Kunst), 2000, 216-225.

"Axel Gallén and the Constructed Nation: Art and Nationalism in Young
Finland, 1880-1900," Ph.D. diss., New York University, Institute of Fine
Arts, 2001 (advisor: Prof. Linda Nochlin; nominated by the Institute of
Fine Arts Faculty Committee for New York University's "Outstanding
Dissertation of the Year" award).

"Axel Gallén and the Painted Word: Finland-Berlin 1893-95" (in Swedish),
trans. Mats Santesson, in En glömd relation: Norden och Tyskland vid
sekelskiftet [A Forgotten Relationship: The North and Germany in the Fin-
de-Siècle], eds. Hans H. Brummer and Cecilia Lengefeld (Stockholm: Prins
Eugens Waldemarsudde, 1998), 210-260.

"Axel Gallén's Kalevala Art" (in Finnish), in Pinx: Maalaustaide Suomessa
[Pinx: Painting in Finland], ed. Helena Sederholm (Helsinki: Weilin+Göös,
2001), 62-75.

I Will Return to My Footsteps: The Life and Art of Akseli Gallen-Kallela
(in Finnish) (Helsinki: Otava, 2001), 476 pages. English edition under
work.

Dr. Janne Gallen-Kallela is a Visiting Lecturer in the field of
Nineteenth-Century Art, Aesthetics and Museology at the Department of
Art History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Janne Gallen-Kallela-Sirén, Ph.D.
Sam and Ayala Zacks Visiting Lecturer
Department of Art History
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mount Scopus
Jerusalem 91905
Israel

(Original review at: http://www.arthist.net/ForumDoD27b.html or
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=271161056830058)