Born on September 4, 1870, in Helsinki, Finland, died in 1942 in Athens, Greece. He studied art between 1890 and 1895 at the Art Academy in Helsinki. Made study trips to Paris and Florence afterwards. Since 1927, he moved to Greece where he lived in Thessaloniki and Athens until the end of his life. There, he produced more than 250 works of art, many of them depicting the daily life of Thessaloniki or the surrounding Aegean Macedonian towns and villages. His works of art can be found in Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki and in J.P. Kostopoulos Foundation in Greece.

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A good item for your own Macedonian collection
Here is one tip for everyone who wants to start his own collection of Macedonia-related art and photographs from the period 1850-1950: a German book