Pekka Halonen

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Pioneers in Karelia, oil painting by Pekka Halonen.
Pioneers in Karelia, oil painting by Pekka Halonen.

Pekka Halonen (September 23, 1865 - December 1, 1933) was a Finnish painter.

His father was a peasant from Lapinlahti. Halonen studied at the Art Society's drawing school in Helsinki. In 1890 he moved to Paris where he studied at the Académie Julian and later under Paul Gauguin.