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Viljo Savikurki (1905 - 1975)
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Pitäjänmäen sankarihautamuistomerkki / Pitäjänmäki Soldiers' Memorial |
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The memorial, a massive stone slab, is located in a well-kept veterans' cemetery. A relief has been cut on the surface of the horizontal slab, depicting two soldiers kneeling in prayer. They personify the Winter and Continuation Wars; the soldier wearing a helmet, winter clothes and a snow cape represents those who fell in the 1939-1940 war and the other one, wearing a uniform of the 1936 model reminds of the losses suffered in the Continuation War. The relief is figurative only when the symbolic content of its details so requires; the intention is to convey a intense sense of patriotism and devotion. The text "Pro Patria 1939-1945" has been cut on the front of the stone. The work is made of granite. It was erected in 1968.
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Visual Artists Association
© Helsinki City Artmuseum
WWW-production: Lasipalatsin Mediakeskus Oy,
Flammable Solutions Oy 2001
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