Ville Vallgren
{{short description|Finnish sculptor}}
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| birth_place = Porvoo, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire (now Finland)
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1940|10|13|1855|12|15|df=y}}
| death_place = Helsinki, Finland
| nationality = Finnish
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| field = Sculpture
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Carl Wilhelm "Ville" Vallgren (15 December 1855 – 13 October 1940) was a Finnish sculptor. His best-known work is the statue Havis Amanda in Helsinki.{{cite book|title=Helsinki: a cultural and literary history |author= Neil Kent|year= 2004|publisher=Signal Books|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=JYlFZE2GoBMC&q=%22Ville+Vallgren%22&pg=PA205|isbn=1-902669-74-6}}{{cite news |last1=Littorin |first1=Pauliina |title=Ville Vallgren – patinoitunut veistos on nyt trendikäs |url=https://www.taloustaito.fi/vapaalla/ville-vallgren--patinoitunut-veistos-on-nyt-trendikas/ |access-date=24 May 2020 |work=Taloustaito |date=21 January 2020}}
Biography
File:Ville Vallgren, Havis Amanda, (1906) 1908.jpg, 1906 (reveal in 1908), his most famous work]]
He was born in Porvoo, and long resident in Paris, whither he went in 1878, after studying architecture in the Helsinki Polytechnic. He entered the École des Beaux-Arts, studied under Cavelier.{{cite web |last1=Supinen |first1=Marja |title=Vallgren, Ville (1855 - 1940) |url=https://kansallisbiografia.fi/kansallisbiografia/henkilo/4154 |website=Kansallisbiografia |access-date=24 May 2020 |date=22 April 2015}}{{cite news |last1=Wahlström |first1=Marko |title=Sisarukset loivat tarinan possuystävästä – Ville Vallgrenin elämä avautuu uudella tavalla |url=https://www.itavayla.fi/teksti/sisarukset-loivat-tarinan-possuystavasta--ville-vallgrenin-elama-avautuu-uudella-tavalla-6.2.45308.2c3c0ccae0 |access-date=24 May 2020 |work=Itäväylä |date=15 December 2019}}{{cite news |last1=Mäkelä |first1=Riitta |title=Ville yllytti herkutteluun |url=https://www.kaleva.fi/ville-yllytti-herkutteluun/1842414 |access-date=24 May 2020 |work=Kaleva |date=31 December 2003}}
In 1882 he married Swedish sculptor Antoinette Råström with whom he worked together. She died in 1911. The same year he married French opera singer and painter Madeleine Imbert-Rohan, but the marriage was rocky from the start and ended only two years later. That year in 1913 he moved back to Finland where he met and married his third wife, Finnish sculptor Viivi Paarmio.
He died on 13 October 1940 in Helsinki, and he was buried in Porvoo.{{cite news |last1=Manninen |first1=Antti |title=Kuvanveistäjä Ville Vallgren teki huikean uran Pariisissa |url=https://www.hs.fi/kaupunki/art-2000004622305.html |access-date=24 May 2020 |work=Helsingin Sanomat |date=28 December 2008}}
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|File:Ernst Josephson - Portrait of Ville Vallgren.jpg|Portrait of Ville Vallgren, Ernst Josephson, 1880
|File:Daniel Nyblin - Portrait photograph of Ville Vallgren (cropped).jpg |Portrait photograph taken in 1891
|File:Albert Edelfelt - The Sculptor Ville Vallgren and his Wife.jpg|Working on the statue Echo with his sculptor wife Antoinette, Albert Edelfelt, 1886
|File:Ville Vallgren, sculpteur et sa femme Antoinette.jpg|Ville Vallgren and his wife Antoinette in 1903
|File:Aarne Pietinen - Sculptors Ville Vallgreen and his wife Viivi Paarmio.jpg|With his third wife, also sculptor Viivi in 1930
|File:Ville Vallgren Sureva enkeli 1918 1949.jpg|His grave, with a crying angel sculpted by Viivi{{cite web |last1=Konttinen |first1=Riitta |title=Vallgren, Viivi (1867 - 1952) |url=https://kansallisbiografia.fi/kansallisbiografia/henkilo/3470 |website=Kansallisbiografia |access-date=24 May 2020 |date=30 July 2007}}
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Works
His mirrors, figurines, lamp stands, urns, and candelabra established his reputation as a decorative artist. Of his statues and portraits, several are in New York City in the Vanderbilt collection, notably Death and Resurrection and A Breton Girl. His works in Finland include a Mariatta, in the Imperial Castle, and a Christ in the National Museum at Helsinki. The marble group Maternity is in the Museum of Arras, and a bronze statuette, Youth, in the Berlin National Gallery.{{NIE|wstitle=Vallgren, Villé|year=1905|inline=1}}
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|File:Ville Vallgren - Echo - B I 378 - Finnish National Gallery.jpg|Echo, 1887
|File:Ateneum main facade.jpg|Main facade of Ateneum Art Museum worked on by multiple artists, with medallion sculptures by Vallgren, 1887
|File:Medaillon portrait 7 of 16 Rubens by Ville Vallgren.jpg|Close-up of Peter Paul Rubens' medallion
|File:Выборг (18).JPG|Statue of Torkel Knutsson in Vyborg, 1887 (public reveal in 1908)
|File:Statue of Torkel Knutsson facing Vyborg Castle by Ville Vallgren.jpg|Knutsson's statue facing Vyborg Castle in the 1930s
|File:Urne cinéraire.JPG|A funerary urn, 1892
|File:MECHELIN(1894) p433 MARIATTA.jpg|Mariatta, 1894
|File:Statue of Uno Cygnaeus.jpg|Statue of Uno Cygnaeus, 1899
|File:M. L. Carstens - Photograph of the sculpture Christ by Ville Vallgren.jpg|Christ, 1908
|File:Topelius and children - DSC05588.JPG|Topelius and children, 1909 (public reveal in 1932)
|File:Aarne Pietinen - President Svinhufvud congratulating sculptor Ville Vallgren for his statue Topelius and children.jpg|President Svinhufvud congratulating him for Topelius and children
|File:Aarne Pietinen - Photograph of sculptor Ville Vallgren setting a wreath by his statue of Albert Edelfelt.jpg|Setting a wreath by his statue of Albert Edelfelt in 1930
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See also
References
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External links
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