Hugo Simberg
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The Wounded Angel
1903
The Wounded Angel (Finnish: Haavoittunut enkeli; Swedish: Sårad ängel; 1903) is a painting by Finnish symbolist painter Hugo Simberg. It is one of the most recognizable of Simberg's works, and was voted Finland's "national painting" in a vote held by the Ateneum art museum in 2006. In a similar 2013 vote held by Nordic Moneta, it was voted second most important.
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Simberg's paintings emphasize mainly macabre and supernatural topics. In the autumn of 1902, Silmberg fell ill with meningitis and was forced to stay in bed for much of the winter. After recovering, he painted his most famous painting: The Wounded Angel. Its titular character appears in the shape of a winged angel with a bandaged head, borne on a stretcher by two somberly dressed boys, one of whom looks toward the viewer with a serious expression. The painting is the best known of the artist's works and is especially famous in Finland.
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