Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa

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Georg Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa (born. Wetterhoff-Asp, May 7, 1870, HelsinkiFebruary 18, 1946) was a Finnish artist and amateur egyptologist. He is best known for his fantastic theories of the past of the Finnish people. Some consider him a late practitioner of Gothicismus.

His parents were Georg August Asp (18341901), professor of anatomy at the University of Helsinki and Mathilda Sofia Wetterhoff (18401920), developer of female gymnastics.

Wettenhovi-Aspa stadied art in Copenhagen in the klg. Akademiet for de Skønne Kunster and the Kröyer Academy 1888-1891.[1]

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