Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa

Georg Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa (born. Wetterhoff-Asp, 7 May 1870 – 18 February 1946) was a Finnish multiartist: painter, sculptor, writer, and a pseudo-linguist.[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][2]

Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa (1940).

Born in Helsinki, 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 from 1888 to 1891.[3] He organized several art shows known as the Free Exhibitions. He died in Helsinki.

References
  1. "Wettenhovi-Aspa ja utopia Suomen mahdista" (in Finnish). Yle Elävä arkisto.
  2. Pitkälä, Pekka (2020-06-14). "Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa, August Strindberg and a dispute concerning the common origins of the languages of mankind 1911–1912". Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis. 29: 49–81–49–81. doi:10.30674/scripta.89215. ISSN 2343-4937.
  3. Suomen kuvataiteilijat - WETTENHOVI-ASPA (ent. Wetterhoff-Asp) Georg SIGURD - ryhmänäyttelyt Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
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