”I can always get so far that my country is satisfied with my achievements but of course, my ambition is more far-reaching than that! And ultimately, it is not merely art that I serve with all this. After all, art is life, religion – everything.”

Painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865–1931) was already under the wing of art patron G.A. Serlachius - the work continued in Gösta's time.