Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa

Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa (1919)

Georg Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa (born. Wetterhoff-Asp, 7 May 1870, Helsinki – 18 February 1946) was a Finnish painter, sculptor, poet, composer, linguist, eugenicist, inventor, architect, freemason, egyptologist and Fennoman who admired Adolf Hitler greatly.[1] He is best known for his fantastic theories about the past of the Finnish people, whom he believed to have descended from Ancient Egypt.[1]

His parents were Georg August Asp (1834—1901), professor of anatomy at the University of Helsinki and Mathilda Sofia Wetterhoff (1840—1920), developer of female gymnastics.

Wettenhovi-Aspa studied art in Copenhagen in the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts 1888-91.[2] He organized several art shows known as the Free Exhibitions.

References

  1. 1 2 "Wettenhovi-Aspa ja utopia Suomen mahdista". Yle Elävä arkisto. (in Finnish).
  2. ↑ Suomen kuvataiteilijat - WETTENHOVI-ASPA (ent. Wetterhoff-Asp) Georg SIGURD - ryhmänäyttelyt Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine.
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