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Wäinö Aaltonen

1894 - 1966

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Wäinö Valdemar Aaltonen (8 March 1894 – 30 May 1966) was a Finnish artist and sculptor. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary describes him as "one of the leading Finnish sculptors". He was born to a tailor in the village of Karinainen, Finland. He became interested in art after being deaf as a child, and attended the School of Drawing of the Turku Art Association from age 16, or specifically between 1910 and 1915. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wäinö Aaltonen is the 36th most popular sculptor (up from 60th in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from Finland (up from 58th in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Sculptor.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Wäinö Aaltonen ranks 36 out of 258. Before him are Claus Sluter, Antoine Bourdelle, Ossip Zadkine, Gustav Vigeland, Leochares, and Jean Tinguely. After him are Paul Landowski, Jacopo della Quercia, Eva Hesse, César Manrique, Eduardo Chillida, and Jean-Antoine Houdon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Wäinö Aaltonen ranks 39. Before him are Dashiell Hammett, Benjamin Graham, Arthur Nebe, Wilhelm Bittrich, Fyodor Tolbukhin, and Alexander Dovzhenko. After him are Martha Graham, Josef von Sternberg, Elisabeth of Romania, Nazli Sabri, Walter Brennan, and Sergey Ilyushin. Among people deceased in 1966, Wäinö Aaltonen ranks 30. Before him are Guillermo Stábile, Chang Myon, Paul Reynaud, Célestin Freinet, Albert Göring, and Abdul Salam Arif. After him are Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Elizabeth Christ Trump, Carlo Carrà, Alfred Naujocks, and Brian O'Nolan.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Wäinö Aaltonen ranks 34 out of 751. Before him are Linus Torvalds (1969), Lars Ahlfors (1907), Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg (1865), George Gaynes (1917), Otto Wille Kuusinen (1881), and Mika Häkkinen (1968). After him are Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804), Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia (1917), Hjalmar Siilasvuo (1892), Albert Edelfelt (1854), Aleksis Kivi (1834), and Yrjö Väisälä (1891).

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Among SCULPTORS In Finland

Among sculptors born in Finland, Wäinö Aaltonen ranks 1. 

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