Walter Runeberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Walter Runeberg

Finnish sculptor

Date of Birth: 29-Dec-1838

Place of Birth: Porvoo, Uusimaa Province, Finland

Date of Death: 23-Dec-1920

Profession: sculptor

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Walter Magnus Runeberg (1838–1920) was a Finnish neo-classical sculptor. Runeberg was born in Porvoo as the eldest son of Finnish national poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg and his wife, Fredrika Runeberg.
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, and with sculptor Carl Eneas Sjöstrand.
From 1858 through 1869 he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen under Herman Wilhelm Bissen, acquiring a clear influence from the neoclassical style of Bissen's master Bertel Thorvaldsen. After periods living and working in Rome and Paris, Runeberg produced many of Helsinki's best-known examples of monumental public art.
The largest is the Alexander II Monument in Senate Square, a commission awarded jointly to Runeberg and sculptor Johannes Takanen, then completed by Runeberg after Takanen's death in 1885.
The pedestal features several allegorical figures.
Notably, the figure representing Law is a version of the Suomi-neito, the Finnish maiden, here cloaked in bearskin.He is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki.



Alternative names	Gunnar Fredrik Berndtson; Gunnar Berndtson
Description	Finnish painter
Date of birth/death	24 October 1854	9 April 1895
Location of birth/death	Helsinki	Helsinki
Authority control	: Q4357370 VIAF: 64279130 ISNI: 0000 0001 0844 8051 ULAN: 500092160 LCCN: n99017161 Open Library: OL7003754A WorldCat