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Takanen, Johannes
(b Virolahdella, Ylä-Urpala, 8 Dec 1849; d Rome, 30 Sept 1885). Finnish sculptor. He studied under Carl Eneas Sjöstrand in Helsinki from 1865 to 1867. In 1867 he moved to Copenhagen where he studied under the Danish sculptor Hermann Wilhelm Bissen and his son Christian Gottlieb Wilhelm Bissen (1836–1913), remaining with them until 1873. During this time he produced such works as the plaster portrait bust of the philologist Vilhelm Thomsen (1868; Helsinki, Athenaeum A. Mus.). In 1873 he moved to Rome where he remained until his death, studying the sculpture there as well as producing original work. His sculpture was inspired especially by Classical mythology and the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala. In the former category were the clay Narcissus Gazing at his Reflection (1875; Helsinki, Athenaeum A. Mus.) and the plaster Andromeda Chained to the Rock (1878; Helsinki, Athenaeum A. Mus.), while from the Kalevala were sculptures such as Aino Looking over the Sea (1876; Helsinki, Athenaeum A. Mus.). There are numerous similarities of pose and composition between these elegant, distracted figures.
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