Hugo Simberg would never explain his works. When asked to do so he
simply said that each person could see whatever he wished in them. He
hoped that they would touch people's inmost feelings, that they would
'make people cry in their heart of hearts'. When Simberg first exhibited
The Wounded Angel
(1903) he put a stroke in
place of a title in the catalogue. Even the slightest hint as to the work's
content would have seemed too openly suggestive. Simberg painted
The Wounded Angel after a difficult and long illness lasting a whole
winter. The work has been seen as the artist's allegorical story of
victory through hardship. Then again, the earliest sketches for the
painting were made before the illness. In any case the painting had a
great significance for Simberg himself. When planning his largest
commission, the decoration of Tampere cathedral, he included the two
works that were closest to him, The Garden of Death and The Wounded
Angel.
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The Age of Symbolism 
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