Lauri Saari
Lauri Abel Saari (born 2 January 1888 in Urjala, died 10 June 1953) was a Finnish painter. He studied at the Central School for Applied Arts in 1910–1913 and the 1920–1922. Saari also took lessons from the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch.[1]
During the 1918 Finnish Civil War, Saari was the commander of the Urjala Red Guards. He was captured after the Battle of Tampere and detained in the Kalevankangas camp.
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- ^ "Saari, Lauri Abel" (in Finnish). Finnish Art Society. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
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- 1888 births
- 1953 deaths
- People from Urjala
- People from Häme Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
- Landscape painters
- 20th-century Finnish painters
- People of the Finnish Civil War (Red side)
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