Post Number 900 - Alvar Aalto as a Painter

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From the book:

ALVAR AALTO

The Complete Catalogue of Architecture, Design and Art

Göran Schildt

ACADEMY EDITIONS 1994

ISBN 1 85490 385 3 (HB)

"Aalto was probably induced to choose the career of an architect - despite his 

remarkable gift for painting - by his admiration for his father the surveyor and his 

grandfather the forester and technical inventor. It was simply inevitable for the 

young Aalto to study at the Helsinki Institute of Technology, where both his 

heroes had been trained, and to come into contact with the exact sciences, which 

had been their mainspring. On the other hand, he could not abjure artistic 

creativity and the humanities. Architecture was a compromise, a synthesis which 

united both needs."

Alvar Aalto, Untitled, 1945
Oil, 44.5 x 67 cm.

Alvar Aalto, Untitled, 1949
Oil, 64 x 80 cm.

Alvar Aalto, Untitled, 1949
Oil, 32.5 x 42.5 cm.

Alvar Aalto, Untitled, 1969
Oil, 64 x 80 cm.

Alvar Aalto, Untitled, 1946-47
Oil, 30 x 38 cm.

Alvar Aalto, Untitled, 1955
Oil, 43 x 52 cm.

Alvar Aalto, Untitled, 1959
Oil, 53 x 67 cm.

Alvar Aalto, Untitled, 1946-47
Oil, 32.5 x 39.5 cm.

Alvar Aalto at 14.