Agathon Reinholm – suomalainen taiteilija sukukansojen parissa
Abstrakti
In the 1880s, the Maris, Mordvins or even the Udmurts had not yet come awakened to the studying or recording their own culture. The Finnish ethnographer Axel Olai Heikel undertook several ethnographic expeditions among the linguistic relatives of the Finns living around the Bend of the Volga. In 1886, he was accompanied by the artist Agathon Reinholm (1857–1887), whose task it was to record the material culture of the Maris, Mordvins and Udmurts. The works of Reinholm have been a veritable discovery for the Maris, Mordvins and Udmurts and a demonstration of their history a hundred years ago. Reinholm and Heikel succeeded in their task. The watercolours, washes and pencil drawings are unique documents of the everyday life of the Maris and Mordvins of over a century ago. The material is the keeping of the Ethnographie Prints and Photographs Archives of the National Board of Antiquities.
