Magnus Enckell

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Magnus Knut Enckell (November 9, 1870 - November 27, 1925) was a Finnish painter.

Enckell was the youngest of six sons in a vicar's family, in a small provincial town in eastern Finland. He studied painting in Helsinki, then later in Paris at the Académie Julian. There he became a member of the Symbolist movement.

Enckell was homosexual as this was reflected in his erotic paintings showing some quite uninhibited portraits given the time period.^[1]

In 1907, Enckell was assigned to paint the altarpiece for the new cathedral in the city of Tampere. In the middle of the painting, which portrays the Resurrection, two men walk hand in hand - a detail that has often been ignored.

Enckell died in Stockholm in 1925 and his funeral was a national event. He was buried in his native village in Finland.

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• www.tampere.fi