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Eetu Salin

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Veikko Leppänen

1967

Bronze

Eetu Salin was an activist in the Finnish labour movement, a journalist, a member of parliament, and a founding member of the Social Democratic Party. He was born in Asikkala and as a young man worked as a shoemaker in Lahti. Salin died a prisoner after the Civil War in 1919. In the centre of the sculpture, a highly stylised human figure stands with arms outstretched. On both sides of the figure are irregular abstracted shapes denoting flames flaring up and to the left. A powerful depiction of his personality and life’s work, the sculpture immortalises Eetu Salin as a figure rising defiantly from the flames.

A sculpture with a human figure with arms spread out to the side, abstract shapes in the background.
Veikko Leppänen, Eetu Salin, 1966. Photo: Tiina Rekola/Malva.

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In Marianpuisto park, opposite Lahti City Hall. – Mariankatu, Lahti.
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Eetu Salin

In Marianpuisto park, opposite Lahti City Hall. – Mariankatu, Lahti.

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