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Lars Eliel Sonck
b. Kdlvid, 1870;
d. Helsinki, 1956.
Lars Eliel Sonck was a prominent and prolific figure in Finland’s anxious search for a national identity after the turn of the century. The rise of National Romanticism paralleled that of Jugendstil within continental Europe, and Sonck, along with Eliel Saarinen, Hermann Gesellius and Armas Lindgren, played [...]