Gunnar Lönnqvist, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 04-Jan-1891
Place of Birth: Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Date of Death: 26-Dec-1978
Profession: photographer
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Gunnar Lönnqvist
- Arthur Gunnar Lönnqvist (4 January 1891 Helsinki – 26 December 1978 Helsinki) was a Finnish photographer and businessman.Lönnqvist started his career as an atelier photographer, but soon turned into amateur photography.
- He photographed his home city Helsinki and the surrounding countryside's landscapes and people.
- Lönnqvist also photographed in other Finnish cities and during his travels in Europe.
- He is known especially of photographs taken during the battle of Helsinki in the Finnish Civil War in April 1918.
- Lönnqvist has won several photography awards in Finland and abroad.Lönnqvist was involved in amateur photography already as a young man.
- After he finished school he started working in 1904 at photographer Daniel Nyblin's camera accessories shop Suomen Valokuvaustarvikekauppa (Ab Finska Fotografiska Magasinet in Swedish).
- Lönnqvist began work as an office clerk, copyist and photographic assistant and also served as the head of the photograph laboratory.
- In the year 1915 he married Ida Järvenpää (1893–1970).
- They had 6 children.
- In 1919 Lönnqvist became the procurator at Suomen Valokuvaustarvikekauppa and later in the 1920s he became the company's managing director.
- In 1933 Lönnqvist founded the company Oy Valovarjo Ab and was engaged as the managing director until the age of 75.
- The company became the head agency for Kodak-products in Finland.Beginning from the year 1909 Lönnqvist was actively involved in the Amatörfotografklubben photograph club.
- He was awarded the club's honorary membership.
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