June 20, 2023 4:26 pm
Published by magnuslonden
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 […]
December 7, 2018 1:34 pm
Published by juusohuhtamaki
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 […]
December 7, 2018 11:58 am
Published by juusohuhtamaki
The birth of the Savonlinna Opera Festival ties in closely with the emerging Finnish identity and Finland’s striving for independence at the beginning of the 20th century. Attending a political meeting in Olavinlinna Castle in 1907 (the year in which Finland democratically elected its first Parliament by universal suffrage), the Finnish soprano Aino Ackté, already […]