"The leading theme of Aleksanteri Ahola-Valo's life and art was the improvement of humanity." Finnish National Biography
Aleksanteri Ahola-Valo (1900-1997) was an artist, architect and a scientist who in 1997 was given the name of a honorary professor of Education. The destiny of an individual and the grand changes of the modern 20th Century society meet in a unique fashion in the life of this dedicated teacher and a torchbearer of a new age. Ahola-Valo was an eye wittness to a whole century, a man who never settled for the role of a mere bystander.
Aleksanteri Ahola-Valo and The Russian Revolution
By Risto Suvanto
A Life Story as a Work of Art
By Erkki Pirtola
The English pages are due in late 2005.
Image: Aleksanteri Ahola-Valo at the Institute for
Children and Maternity in Moscow, 1932.
