IK Inha

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IK Inha

IK Inha (born November 12, 1865 in Jäähdyspohja, Virrat district as Konrad Into Nyström, † April 3, 1930 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish photographer, travel writer, journalist and translator. As a photographer, Inha was a pioneer who helped photography gain recognition in Finland by documenting and describing the Finnish forest, river and lake landscape, the forest farmers and their milieu as well as the ancient customs and traditions.

Life

IK Inha was the ninth of eleven children. His father was the administrative officer Johan Abraham Nyström and his mother Clara Charlotte Nyström, geb. Vikman. Both parents belonged to the Swedish-speaking (Finland-Swedish) middle class in Finland. At home they made music, read a lot, took photos and painted, and excursions into nature were frequent. His brother Usko Nyström (1861–1925) became an architect who u. a. built the state hotel in Imatra in Art Nouveau style. After elementary and secondary school Konrad Into came in 1877, the family had meanwhile moved to Ikaalinen, as the only one of the children in a Finnish-language high school in Hämeenlinna. He was one of the best students with Latin, German, Russian and French as foreign languages ​​and learned English and Italian alongside school. Even Jean Sibelius attended this school, his classmate and friend was. After graduating from high school in 1884, Into enrolled at the University of Helsinki and took Aesthetics, Finnish, and History, but switched to geology, geography, and chemistry without graduating. In the meantime he had a comprehensive general education and spoke several foreign languages. Inha stayed in Helsinki and had his most creative creative period between 1890 and 1901. His repeated advertisements for Aino Krohn , later married Kallas (1878-1956) remained unanswered. Inha remained unmarried throughout his life. Inha made numerous trips at home and abroad. From 1917 to 1925 he lived in seclusion in rural south-west Finland (Karjalohja and Lohja) before moving back to Helsinki in 1925, where he died of leukemia in 1930. In Helsinki he is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery, in the section for artists.

IK Inha was a pioneer for the rapidly growing national consciousness in the autonomous Russian Grand Duchy of Finland . Finland declared its independence in 1917. With his modern, realistic-documentary photography of Finland's nature, he made an important contribution to Finnish national romanticism. In 1887, like many other Swedish-speaking Finns, he took on a Finnish-sounding name and from then on called himself Into Konrad Inha. Inha is the first name of his sister Inha Luciina Nyström, who died at the age of five when he was three years old.

Work and creation

In 1886 Inha rode his bike through Germany, Northern Bohemia, Switzerland and Strasbourg, in 1889 attended W. Cronenberg's practical training institute for photography in Grönenbach (today's Bad Grönenbach) in the Allgäu and practiced in the same year in E. Jaffé's and atelier A. Albert in Vienna. When he came back to Finland in 1890, he was a professional photographer. In order to secure his livelihood, however, he began his journalistic work as an editor for the conservative magazine “Uusi Suometar” (New Finn) and the workers magazine “Kyläkirjaston Kuvalehti” (Village Library Illustrated), of which he was co-editor. On behalf of A. Ståhlberg's studio in Helsinki, he traveled to Northern Finland in 1892, mainly taking photos of landscapes and rapids. A selection of 80 pictures was successfully shown in a sales exhibition at A. Ståhlberg's in Helsinki. In 1893 he undertook a similar trip to Eastern Finland and in 1894 to the Orthodox White Sea Karelia, where he followed in the footsteps of Elias Lönnrot , the creator of the national epic Kalevala , rune singer and folk poetry in pictures and words. The pictures finally consolidated his photographic and artistic reputation. Inha continued his travels through all the provinces of Finland into the next century, commissioned by various institutions and on the way by rail, liner steamers, sailing or rowing boats, horse-drawn carts, bicycles or on foot. The journeys culminated in the publication "Finland i Pictures - Suomi kuvissa" (1895 / 96–174 pictures). For the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900, he photographed scenes from Finnish agriculture. The painter Eero Järnefelt , a representative of Finnish national romanticism, accompanied Inha in 1895 to the Koli hill in the middle of the Finnish lake landscape. The panorama series created there, composed of seven individual shots, became famous in Finland.

Inha translated at least 39 books into Finnish, mostly from German and French, but also from English. He wrote over 20 books about his travels and popular topics from geography and science, and he has published over 30 books as an editor. In 1909/1910 he also wrote a book about Germany. He was one of the first Finnish foreign correspondents in Greece (Turkish War 1897) and England (Boer War 1899).

Inha was a keen cyclist and even imported bicycles from England for a while. For his travels he used a converted bicycle on which he could transport his 23 kg equipment, consisting of a camera, tripod, glass plates, cassettes, chemicals and personal luggage. Three years before his death, he bought a motorcycle, an American Indian Prince, and used it to visit the family of his brother Väinö in a suburb of Tampere.

Works

  • Suomen maisemia (Finnish Landscapes). Näkemänsä mukaan kuvaillut IK Inha. 1909. WSOY. Travel description of Northern Finland (1892), without pictures.
  • Kalevalan Laulumailta ( Kalevalas Runesinger Land ) First edition 1911
  • Suomen maisemia (Finnish Landscapes). Näkemänsä mukaan kuvaillut IK Inha. 1925. WSOY. Second extended edition with pictures.
  • Suomen maisemia (Finnish Landscapes). Näkemänsä mukaan kuvaillut IK Inha. 1988. WSOY. Third extended edition with pictures.
  • IK Inha, Eräs valokuvausmatka . (A photographic journey). Cameran Aikakauslehti valokuvaajia ja harrastajia varten. (Photo magazine). October 10, 1892. Editor: KE Ståhlberg. Helsinki.
  • IK Inha, Taiteilijainnayttely (exhibition by an artist). Uusi Suometar (magazine). November 8, 1895. No. 260.
  • Inha, IK 1895. Laukkumiesten kotimaa (home of the wandering traders). Kansanvalistusseuran kalenteri (Calendar of the Association for Public Enlightenment). 1896. Weilin + Göös. Helsinki.
  • Inha, IK 1895/1896. Finland i pictures. Suomi kuvissa. La Finlande picturesque. Wenzel Hagelstam & Uno Wasastjerna. Helsinki. Vienna. The work can be found digitized on the Internet at: http://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/43338 (September 2, 2011).
  • Inha, IK, 1896 Valokuvaus matkoilla (photography on the way). Turistföreningens i Finland Årsbok för 1896. (Tourist office in Finland, yearbook 1896). Helsinki.
  • Inha, IK Kuinka 'Suomi kuvissa' syntyi. Vähän selontekoa matkoistani . (How 'Finland i Pictures' came about. Brief explanation of my travels). Uusi Suometar. November 1, 1897.
  • Inha, IK Pisan mäki (The Mount of Pisa). Kyläkirjaston Kuvalehti, 12/1897, 142.
  • Inha, IK 1900 Saimaan kanavalla (On the Saimaa Canal). Kansanvalistusseuran kalenteri (Calendar of the Association for Public Enlightenment) 1901. Weilin + Göös. Helsinki.
  • Inha, IK, 1903. Suursaari (highlands). Kansanvalistusseuran kalenteri (Calendar of the Association for Public Enlightenment) 1904. Weilin + Göös. Helsinki.
  • Inha, IK, 1904. Karjalohjalla ja Sammatissa (In Karjalohja and Sammatti). Kansanvalistusseuran kalenteri (Calendar of the Association for Public Enlightenment) 1905. Weilin + Göös. Helsinki.
  • Inha, IK, 1905. Oulusta Iisalmeen (From Oulu to Isalmi). Kansanvalistusseuran kalenteri (Calendar of the Association for Public Enlightenment) 1906. Täydellinen laitos (complete edition). Weilin + Göös. Helsinki.
  • Inha, IK, 1909-1910. Saksanmaa (Germany). Maantieteellisiä kuvaelmia XXXIV (Geographical Tableaus). Kansanvalistusseura (Association for Public Enlightenment). Helsinki.
  • Inha, IK Kalevala ja kansanrunouden tutkimus (The Kalevala and folk poetry). Uusi Suometar (magazine). February 27, 1910, no.47.
  • Inha, IK Vienan Karjalan runolaulajavanhuksia (Ancient Rune Singer White Sea Karelia). Uusi Suometar (magazine) February 27, 1910, no.47.
  • Inha, IK, 1912. Islanti, tarun ja runon maa (Iceland, the land of legends and runes). Helsinki.
  • Inha, IK, 1915. Kolme Torisevaa (Three times the Toriseva Sea). Kansanvalistusseuran kalenteri (Calendar of the Association for Public Enlightenment). 1916. Weilin + Göös. Helsinki.
  • Inha, IK, 1920. Lohjan vanhoista lehdoista (Old Groves in Lohja). Tiede ja elämä II vihko (Science and Life II booklet). WSOY. Porvoo.
  • Inha, IK, 1921. Kalevalan laulumailta (Kalevalas Runesingerland). Elias Lönnrotin poluilla Vienan Karjalassa (On the trail of Elias Lönnrot in White Sea Karelia). Kuvaus Vienan Karjalan maasta, kansasta, siellä tapahtuneesta runonkeruusta ja runoista itsestään . 2nd edition (1st edition 1911) (description of White Sea Karelia, the people, the rune collection and the runes themselves). Tietosanakirjaosakeyhtiö Helsinki.
  • Inha, IK, 2009. Muistelmia polkupyöräretkeltäni (1886) (Chronicle of my cycling tour through Germany). Ed. Mikikko Kylliäinen. Vanhat Velot Ry (Old Velos).
  • Io Ia, [Inha, IK], 1914. Sortunut sävel (The collapsed melody). Kansanvalistusseuran kalenteri (Calendar of the Association for Public Enlightenment) 1915. Weilin + Göös. Helsinki.

Newer illustrated books and literature about Inha

  • Kati Lintonen, Hymyilevät Rannat (Laughing Beaches) IK Inhan luonnon hurmaus ja melankolia
  • IK Inha, ecstasy and melancholy . Maahenki Oy. Otavan Kirjapaino Oy, Keuru 2006
  • IK Inha, 1894. Valokuvaaja Vienan Karjalassa (photographer in White Sea Karelia ) Publisher: Pekka Laaksonen, Helsinki 1990
  • Tuomo-Juhani Vouorenmaa and Ismo Kajander, IK Inha, photographer 1865–1930 . Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö, Porvoo 1981
  • IK Inha, Unelma maisemasta (dream of a landscape). Essay by Taneli Eskola. Musta Taide, Helsinki 2007. ISBN 978-952-9851-72-0
  • Jukka Kukkonen, Riitta Toiviainen, Kjell Westö, Helsinki Valon kaupunki (Helsinki City of Light) Helsinki with IK Inha's eyes, Werner Söderström OY, Porvoo 2009
  • Aamu Nyström, IK INHA. Valokuvaaja, kirjailija, kultuurin löytöretkeilijä (IK INHA. Photographer, writer, explorer of culture) Minerva Kustannus Oy, Porvoo 2011. ISBN 978-952-492-441-2
  • Veikko Neuvonen, Tuomo-Juhani Vuorenmaa, IK Inha toiveiden mailla (IK Inhas Land of Hope) Maahenki Oy, Helsinki 2016

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IKI [nha], 1982. “Eräs valokuvausmatka”. (A photographic journey). Cameran Aikakauslehti valokuvaajia ja harrastajia varten. (Photo magazine). October 10, 1892. Published by KE Ståhlberg. Helsinki.
  2. ^ Inha, IK, 1909-1910. Saksanmaa (Germany). Maantieteellisiä kuvaelmia (Geographical Tableaus). Kansanvalistusseura (Association for Public Enlightenment). Helsinki.
personal data
SURNAME Inha, IK
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Inha, Konrad Into (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish photographer, travel writer, journalist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Virrat district
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1930
Place of death Helsinki