Look, I had a vision like this

The Wounded Angel, one of Finland's favourite paintings.

Hugo Simberg painted The Wounded Angel during the summer of 1903. In the autumn that year the painting was included in the Annual Exhibition, and after seeing it, Gallén (Akseli Gallen-Kallela) told Simberg he thought it had been created in a small cottage in the middle of the woods - without caring about the outside world. The Wounded Angel is indeed a depiction of the inner world, presenting simple colours and composition as if to say: Look, I had a vision like this.

(Original Finnish text by Riikka Stewen)

Hugo Simberg
Unien maalari (Painter of Dreams), Otava 2004