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Rengasmatkat – Olavinlinna

December 7, 2018 3:10 pm Published by

That’s the castle of Olavinlinna you can see through the window – the location where the famous Opera festival is arranged every summer. The artist for this artwork is unknown. But we continuously seek more information about all posters and images in our product range, so please write us if you think you know something […]

Olavinlinna by Pietinen

December 7, 2018 3:08 pm Published by

This is the castle of Olavinlinna in eastern Finland. Despite sterling contributions from the Finnish commercial graphic artists, there was still a force that grew ever stronger: photographs. Suddenly one could show things ‘exactly’ as they looked in reality! No exaggerations! No room for interpretation! This is what it actually looks like in Finland! Many […]

Poster of Olavinlinna, Finland

Olavinlinna by Väinö Blomstedt

December 7, 2018 1:34 pm Published by

After our great poster exhibition at the National Museum in Finland closed in 2017 we received an e-mail from the US: ”I have something you might be interested in”. It was a Finn-American writing, and he surely was right. In the 1980s he had bought a Finnish travel poster from a collector in NYC. It […]

Olavinlinna by Kai Nordberg

December 7, 2018 11:55 am Published by

We asked photographer Kai Nordberg to tell the story behind this poster in his own words: ”In the summer of 1958, I was 22 years old then, I worked as an assistant at the photo studio Aho & Soldan. When summer was up I told photgrapher Heikki Ahtola that I’m heading for Savonlinna for a […]