Kimmo Huosionmaa
Suddenly I got strange idea in my mind, and that is, did Eero Järnefelt ever met Aleksis Kivi himself, or how that painter could be sure, that this portrait was portrayed Aleksis Kivi or Stenvall? Who was the person, who brought the original drawing to Järnefelt and asked to draw Aleksis Kivi in this picture? And suddenly I was starting to think, why there were not make portraits of Aleksis Kivi during his life? Was there some reason for that, or did that portrait just forgotten, because it was thought to be unnecessary? But there is one thing, what makes this thing interesting.
The publishers must know, who Kivi was because they had to pay the manuscript, and that's why I think, that there might be something about the missing portrait. How publishing agents were known, who they pay the writings, what they publish? Or how they knew, that the writer of those texts were actually the same Aleksis Kivi, who walked in their office? Or were there some photographs of this man? This is a very interesting small mystery in the history of Finnish literature.
Kivi lived in the artistic society, and I think that there would be found some person, who wanted to make portraits for training. But why that kind of painting didn't make for Aleksis Kivi? Was he self against that? Or were there something, what this man tried to hide? And why he covered his faces? I sometimes have thought, that was Aleksis elder of the younger son in that family. There is no matter, what people have told, there is matter, what were the realities. If Aleksis Kivi or Stenvall, was really, who he claimed, there was something, what was very interesting. The name "Stenvall" was fit to the officers, and that is quite interesting.
Was that family actually origin the Swedish officers, who were lost their house in the war? And if Stenvalls were Swedish speaking family, why Aleksis started to write using Finnish. This is quite interesting, because there was no novel at that time, what was written in Finnish. So Aleksis was the pioneer, but how the payer would come to support that work? How Kivi convicted the financial supporters, who paid the prints of that book? And how those people were sure, that novels, what were written by Kivi, were sold to the people, that they could get enough money for the profit by selling those books?
There were many secrecies in that time, but I wonder, why nobody wanted to make the portrait of our national writer? And when the famous drawing was made, who identified that person as "Aleksis Kivi"? When we are thinking that question very carefully, there could be interested in this, the question, where the person, who wrote "Seitsemän veljestä" actually the same person, who was in that portrait? Or were somebody actually makes mistake with those persons? And is in that picture the real writer, or somebody else?
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