Alfred Väinö Blomstedt ( April 1, 1871 to Savonlinna – February 2, 1947 Helsink); Finnish painter, illustrator, graphic artist and textile artist. Blomstedt’s parents were Treasurer, Associate Judge Alfred Emanuel Blomstedt and Hanna Charlotta os Stadius. Blomstedt was a symbolist , and he was influenced by, among other things, Japanese art. He studied at the Finnish Art Society drawing school in Helsinki 1888-1889 and Gunnar Berndtson student in 1889-1891. Blomstedt lived in the 1890s in France, together with Pekka Halonen, with Paris at the Académie Julian . The painter Paul Gauguin in the doctrine he had in 1891, 1893-1894, 1897-1898, 1903, 1905-1906, and 1912. He attended St. Petersburg, held in the Russian and Finnish artists exhibition in 1898, and Mir iskusstva organize international art exhibition in 1899. Blomstedt is greatly influenced by Gauguin, as well as a friend in Sweden Olof Sager-Nelson . Blomstedt of the Finnish Art Society drawing school as a teacher, head teacher and the inspector. He also taught at the Central School of Art and Design and the University of Helsinki, the drawing room. In addition, Blomstedt was also the Friends of Finnish Handicraft Artistic Advisor and Model Maker. [https://beartales.me/2012/09/02/vaino-alfred-blomstedt/] undefined

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